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Inspirational Quotes by Marcel Duchamp
- Chess is a sport. A violent sport.
- Not all artists are Chess players, but all Chess players are artists
- It's true, of course, humor is very important in my life, as you know. That's the only reason for living, in fact.
- Three or four drops of height have nothing to do with savageness.
- I wanted to kill art for myself… …a new thought for that object.
- I was poking fun at myself most of all.
- Unless a picture shocks, it is nothing.
- Art has absolutely no existence as veracity, as truth.
- Aesthetic delectation is the danger to be avoided.
- It is the spectators who make the pictures.
- Living is more a question of what one spends than what one makes.
- Art is not about itself but the attention we bring to it.
- Do unto others as they wish, but with imagination.
- Destruction is also creation.
- My idea was to chose an object that wouldn't attract me, either by its beauty or by its ugliness. To find a point of indifference…
- It's not what you see that is art. Art is the gap.
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- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento