"I was interested in ideas, not in visual products. I wanted to put painting again in the service of the mind."

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Source : "Dialogues with Marcel Duchamp".

Marcel Duchamp

#Ideas Quotes #Mind Quotes #Painting Quotes

“I had a very happy childhood.”
“He comes back with the script, and it's racist like a 1940's Newspaper.”
“It is an experiment worth trying to be alone and to be quiet for a brief period every day. Under city conditions it may be difficult to carry out, but most of us could do it if we tried. At any rate, we should moderate the pace at which we are living. If we remain at high gear, at top pressure, we are bound to suffer from fatigue and strain.”
“Do you want total war? If necessary, do you want a war more total and radical than anything that we can even imagine today?”
“Young people are cynical about love. Ultimately, cynicism is the great mask of the disappointed and betrayed heart.”
“Once, I had a dream of fame. Generally, even then, I was lonely.”

Source : David Markson (1988). “Wittgenstein's Mistress”
“You can change your life, because you have an unlimited ability to think and talk about what you love, and so you have an unlimited ability to bring everything good in life to you.”
“Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.”

Source : Speech to McGill University School of Architecture, www.arthurerickson.com. October 21, 2000.

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