Marcel Duchamp Quotes
Impressionism was the beginning of a cult devoted to the material on the canvas – the actual pigment..
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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.
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African Americans are one of the oldest ethnic groups in this country. We been here since the beginning. Before the beginning.
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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.
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He will be beginning a brand new chapter in the Michael Jackson legend.
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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.
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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.
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If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now.
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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.
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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.
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Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.
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I love writers all across the board, but one who influenced me very directly at the beginning was Mary Renault.
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Right from the very beginning, I knew I wanted to write palpably Scottish fiction.
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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.
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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.
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I was born in 1928 and by 1931 the Depression was beginning to mount.
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If people are looking forward to my films, then I am happy, and I must be doing something right.
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And, I may add, from what totally unexpected sources come many of those who from the comparatively modest beginning in the chorus rise to the heights of really great achievement in the theatrical profession.
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Dancers are a work of art - they are the canvas on which their work is painted.
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Importing foreign labor has always been the American way, beginning with 4 million slaves from Africa. Later came the Jews and Poles, the Hungarians, Italians and Irish, the Chinese and Japanese - everything you learned in sixth grade social studies about the great American melting pot.
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Everything seems fine until you're about 40. Then something is definitely beginning to go wrong. And you look in the mirror with your old habit of thinking, 'While I accept that everyone grows old and dies, it's a funny thing, but I'm an exception to that rule.'
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Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid.
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To wait is not to sit with folded hands, but to learn to do what we are told.
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Impressionism was the beginning of a cult devoted to the material on the canvas – the actual pigment..
