Marcel Duchamp Quotes

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• At the beginning of all experimental work stands the choice of the appropriate technique of investigation.

  

  Walter Rudolf Hess
  • Work
  • Beginning
  • Choice

• Even in the beginning, when we knew there was a legal argument about how much our song sounds like his song, as one songwriter to another, I wasn't sure that Cat Stevens would take that as bad.

  

  Wayne Coyne
  • Bad
  • Song
  • Beginning

• African Americans are one of the oldest ethnic groups in this country. We been here since the beginning. Before the beginning.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Country
  • Beginning
  • Been

• Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which developed into The Tree of Man.

  

  Patrick White
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Man

• He will be beginning a brand new chapter in the Michael Jackson legend.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • Beginning
  • Legend
  • Brand

• You would hardly believe how difficult it is to place a figure alone on a canvas, and to concentrate all the interest on this single and universal figure and still keep it living and real.

  

  Edouard Manet
  • Believe
  • Real
  • Alone

• Simple peck-order bullying is only the beginning of the kind of hierarchical behavior that can lead to racism, sexism, ethnocentrism, classism, and all the other 'isms' that cause so much suffering in the world.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • World
  • Simple
  • Beginning

• If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Dead
  • Now
  • Muslim

• Even though I know who I am, musically I'm a blank canvas. I know what colors I want to use, but I don't know what picture I want to paint yet.

  

  Becky G
  • Picture
  • Colors
  • Musically

• Envision what the end result is supposed to be... what do you want to be when you grow up? Where do you see yourself? Once we identify what the painting on the wall is, it is so much easier to bring in the right colors, canvas and brushes to paint that picture.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Up
  • Picture
  • Painting

• Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Great
  • Beginning
  • Heaven

• I love writers all across the board, but one who influenced me very directly at the beginning was Mary Renault.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Beginning
  • Writers
  • Influenced

• The past is but the past of a beginning.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Past
  • Beginning

• Right from the very beginning, I knew I wanted to write palpably Scottish fiction.

  

  Ian Rankin
  • Beginning
  • Write
  • Fiction

• I want to do just, like, regular art. Whatever is made today on canvas goes up against all of art history. It's the most radical thing.

  

  Barry McGee
  • Up
  • Art
  • History

• There's a lot of craft that goes into achieving a hit song - at the beginning of your career, you're usually more inspiration than craft, and you get great when those intersect. A skilled songwriter can get you to that intersection.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
  • Career
  • Song
  • Inspiration

• I was born in 1928 and by 1931 the Depression was beginning to mount.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Beginning
  • Born
  • Depression

• If people are looking forward to my films, then I am happy, and I must be doing something right.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • People
  • Happy
  • Films

• I've been on this kick reading about the beginning of forensic science: autopsies, fingerprinting, psychological profiling. I've been reading a lot of books about forensic anthropology.

  

  Caitlin Kittredge
  • Science
  • Reading
  • Beginning

• At times, the curve/fat/plus convo tends be this 'out of the dark' story, like, 'I used to be insecure, but now here I am.' But that is not my reality, and for most of the people, that isn't their reality, either.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • People
  • Reality
  • Story

• I had travelled pretty widely around the world even before then, so I knew where to go to film wildlife.

  

  Jim Fowler
  • World
  • Pretty

• My favorite Broadway show day-to-day, just for the experience, was 'The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.' The people were so much fun. It was a great show.

  

  Barrett Foa
  • People
  • Great
  • Experience

• A Marine knows that pride is the bedrock upon which he will lay the foundation of his life, and on that foundation he will build the structure by which the worth of his existence and the measure of his accomplishments will be judged.

  

  Zell Miller
  • Life
  • Pride
  • Marine

• Impressionism was the beginning of a cult devoted to the material on the canvas – the actual pigment..

  

  Marcel Duchamp
  • Beginning
  • Canvas