Marcel Duchamp Quotes

The chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chess-board, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem.. .I have come to the personal conclusion that while all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.

Marcel Duchamp

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But also, the guest workers program, it's quite often misused, meaning people could come in as part of a guest workers program and after two weeks in the fields, they'd run off to do every other kind of job that isn't covered by a guest workers program.

Dana Rohrabacher
- People
- Job
- Meaning
Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
- Poetry
- Nothing
- Skill
It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

E. W. Howe
- May
- Cold
- Friendship
Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.

J. G. Ballard
- Reality
- Need
- Writer
I'm going for something very raw and organic.

Haley Reinhart
- Something
- Very
- Going
The late Seventies was the death of the manufacturing age in the United States. It was also a time when the Pictures Generation artists were getting started. They co-opted the language of advertising. The factory disappeared, and weirdly, so did the art object - it was the age of making gestures, not objects.

Rachel Kushner
- Time
- Art
- Age