Marcel Duchamp Quotes
the idea of movement.. ..just transferred from the Nude Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 - Duchamp painted this in 1912 into a bicycle wheel Bicycle wheel, his early ready-made from 1916-17.
Marcel Duchamp
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It avoids a self-conscious relationship to the act. We live in the most self-conscious society in the history of mankind. There are good things in that, but there are also terrible things. The worst of it is, that we find it hard to give ourselves to the cultural process.
Larry Harvey
I try to write lyrics so that they won't age, which sort of leaves you with the big subjects like death and love and sex and violence.
Florence Welch
Florence and the Machine
I'm not trying to be macho, I promise you.
Daniel Craig
I like politics. I like traveling in the United States.
Laura Bush
Clowning is a trick to get love close. I can hug 99 percent of people in the first second of contact if I'm in my clown character. The clown assumes your humanity. It assumes that, whatever trauma you've had, you can still love yourself.
Patch Adams
The Chinese government attaches importance to, and protects, human rights. We have incorporated these lines into the Chinese constitution, and we also implement the stipulation in real earnest. I think for any government, what is most important is to ensure that its people enjoy each and every right given to them by the constitution.
Wen Jiabao
I was trying to develop a completely new, nonvoyeuristic approach to the female body as something other than a visual object. I wanted to find out what happened when you leave behind the voyeuristic mode and confront people with reality. But that's what was so interesting for me to discover: People don't want to see reality. It's a pretty simple idea, really, this question of how we deal with reality. When something is constructed, when it's projected onto a screen, it's acceptable, but it's different when it's there in front of you in a public space.
Valie Export
He’s not that young, he’s turned twenty-three, and what makes him feel foolish among these people, he’s married. Nobody else here looks married. There is sure nobody else pregnant, that it shows. It makes him feel put on display, as a guy who didn’t know better.
John Updike
There was little in my early life to indicate that an interest in biology would become the passion of my academic career. In fact, there was little to suggest I would have an academic career.
Eric Kandel
I have an artist background and I got into the field because I heard things in my own head that weren't happening and I wanted to have the control. So I learned to record and mix and do all those things. I found it as a means to an end, and I was fascinated by sound and creating sound. I very quickly became addicted to understanding everything there was to know.
Emily Lazar
the idea of movement.. ..just transferred from the Nude Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 - Duchamp painted this in 1912 into a bicycle wheel Bicycle wheel, his early ready-made from 1916-17.
Marcel Duchamp