"Three or four drops of height have nothing……" — Marcel Duchamp

"Three or four drops of height have nothing to do with savageness."

— Marcel Duchamp

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56 Quotes by Marcel Duchamp

Marcel Duchamp has 56 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The life of an artist is like the life of a monk, a lewd monk if you like, very Rabelaisian.…
All decisions in the artistic execution of the work rest with pure intuition and cannot be translated into a self-analysis.
Art has the lovely habit of ruining all artistic theories.
Chess is a sport. A violent sport.
Not all artists are Chess players, but all Chess players are artists
The Chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the…
As soon as we start putting our thoughts into words and sentences everything gets distorted, language is just no damn…
It's true, of course, humor is very important in my life, as you know. That's the only reason for living,…
To all appearances, the artist acts like a mediumistic being who, from the labyrinth beyond time and space, seeks his…
Since the tubes of paint used by the artist are manufactured and ready made products we must conclude that all…
I don’t care about the word ‘art’ because it has been so discredited. So I want to get rid of…
I've decided that art is a habit-forming drug. That's all it is, for the artist, for the collector, for anybody…

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More Drops Quotes

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Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams. — Hosea Ballou
A catcher and his body are like the outlaw and his horse. He's got to ride that nag till it… — Johnny Bench
We want to be the band to dance to when the bomb drops. — Simon Le Bon
Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link into… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that modesty drops. — Maya Angelou
Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man-yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the… — Marcus Aurelius
One of these days I'm going to write a book on drops. That ought to sell. The shot's become more… — Jimmy Demaret
The other sad truth about golf spectatorship is that for today's pros it all comes down to the putting, and… — John Updike
In the spring rain, the pond and the river become one. Into every life some rain must fall. Usually when… — Langston Hughes
Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth. — Eric Hoffer
My fear of flying starts as soon as I buckle myself in and then the guy up front mumbles a… — Dennis Miller
Life is fragile, like the dew hanging delicately on the grass, crystal drops that will be carried away on the… — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

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