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Marcel Duchamp
"All this twaddle, the existence of God, atheism, determinism, liberation, societies, death, etc., are pieces of a chess game called language, and they are amusing only if one does not preoccupy oneself with 'winning or losing this game of chess." --
Source : Ecke Bonk, Marcel Duchamp (1989). “Marcel Duchamp, the box in a valise: De ou par Marcel Duchamp ou Rrose Sélavy : inventory of an edition”, Rizzoli Intl Pubns
Marcel Duchamp
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“Lana says J.P. makes Matt Damon from the Bourne movies look like Oliver from Hannah Montana”
“(on grief) And you do come out of it, that’s true. After a year, after five. But you don’t come out of it like a train coming out of a tunnel, bursting through the downs into sunshine and that swift, rattling descent to the Channel; you come out of it as a gull comes out of an oil-slick. You are tarred and feathered for life.”
“I think it's important to have a blend just as we need to have by the way a mix of different opera companies and different arts companies.”
“These days I'm often called a Deviant Calvinist, but I don't really think my views do deviate from the Reformed tradition, though in some respects they may represent views that are not as popular now as they once were, or that may represent a minority report in the tradition.”
“Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.”
“Even though I occasionally appear on it, I don't watch television.”
Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“What I know of the divine science and holy scripture, I learnt in the woods and fields.”
“There's nothing like the #‎ buzz of live #‎ theater . You put it out there and receive an instant reaction: laughing, crying, yelling, applauding.”