Marcel Duchamp Quotes

I realized very soon the danger of repeating indiscriminately this form of expression and decided to limit the production of 'ready-mades' to a small number yearly. I was aware at that time, that for the spectator even more than for the artist, art is a habit forming drug and I wanted to protect my 'ready-mades' against such contamination.

Marcel Duchamp

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I get offers all the time from film makers, but they are unknown quantities. I don't go there and do experiments.

Dan Aykroyd
- Time
- Film
- Unknown
I think after a time there won't be anything left to be interesting for mankind. Computers are about to do everything for us. Cellphones are smarter than we are. We'll embrace spirituality because we'll be bored of everything else.

Damian Marley
- Time
- Interesting
- Bored
I was always an avid reader of books. My vocabulary, my English are all thanks to that reading habit. Reading keeps me grounded. I came from a very middle class family – poor, in fact.

Madhur Bhandarkar
- Family
- Reading
- Habit
When I first met Mandela, we did not discuss anything of substance; we just felt each other out. He spent a long time expressing his admiration for the Boer generals and how ingenious they were during the Anglo-Boer war.

F. W. de Klerk
- Time
- Long
- War
The Web forces me to be disciplined and not to waste time – but before the Web was invented, there were plenty of opportunities to do that anyway.

Fareed Zakaria
- Time
- Me
- Opportunities
At one time if you were a black writer you had to be one of the best writers in the world to be published. You had to be great. Now you can be good. Mediocre. And that's good.

Walter Mosley
- Time
- World
- Good