Quotations By Famous People

Quotations By Famous People

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Fools make researches and wise men exploit them. -- H. G. Wells (1866-1946)
After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
-- H. G. Wells (1866-1946)...
No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.
-- H. G. Wells (1866-1946)...
The individual, man as a man, man as a brain, if you like, interests me more than what he makes, because I've noticed that most artists only repeat themselves.
-- Marcel Duchamp...
I don't believe in art. I believe in artists. -- Marcel Duchamp
The chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes though
and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chess-board, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem....
I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.
-- Marcel Duchamp...
The creative act is not performed by the artist alone
The observation of nature is part of an artist's life, it enlarges his form [and] knowledge, keeps him fresh and from working only by formula, and feeds inspiration.
-- Henry Moore...
I find in all the artists that I admire most a disturbing element, a distortion, giving evidence of a struggle .
. . . In great art, this conflict is hidden, it is unresolved. All that is bursting wi...

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