"It's not what you see that is art. Art is the gap."

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Source : Wilfried Dörstel, Marcel Duchamp (1989). “Augenpunkt, Lichtquelle und Scheidewand: die symbolische Form im Werk Marcel Duchamps : unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Witzzeichnungen von 1907 bis 1910 und der Radierungen von 1967/68”

Marcel Duchamp

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“I'm attracted to Ferraris and Bentleys, but I don't know if I'll ever have a chance to own one of those.”

Source : Interview with John Scott Lewinski, www.askmen.com.
“Thank God for machines. They can make a dog sing!”
“I definitely think with a lot of hard work, I can be a better player than I was last year, and hopefully, continue to raise the bar every year.”
“This is a city of absolute enchantment in the literal sense of the word. It loosens all the bonds binding the traveller to his own age and sets him free to live in a past that is vital and crude but never ugly. Herat is as old as history and as moving as a great epic poem - if Afghanistan had nothing else it would have been worth coming to experience this.”

Source : Dervla Murphy (1987). “Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle”, p.39, The Overlook Press
“Strange about learning; the farther I go the more I see that I never knew even existed. A short while ago I foolishly thought I could learn everything - all the knowledge in the world. Now I hope only to be able to know of its existence, and to understand one grain of it. Is there time?”

Source : Daniel Keyes (2007). “Flowers for Algernon”, p.153, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I'm not afraid of heights, but the idea of falling from them, well, that I'm afraid of.”
“I honestly try to have the approach that this is real life, this is the real world that we live in, and I don't really try to shelter [my son] from a lot of things that he's gonna see when he looks out of the window.”
“Whenever people ask you where you're from and you say New Orleans, it's always going to create a conversation.”

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