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A magician makes the visible invisible. A mime maks the invisble visible.


Marcel Marceau

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APURVA GAGLANI Everything visible came from the invisible world.
SUNDAY ADELAJA A sacrament is a visible sign of an invisible reality.
MOTHER ANGELICA Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible.
PAUL KLEE Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible
PAUL KLEE A visible dream will become invisible if not acted upon.
SCOTTIE SOMERS What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible.
MARIE VON EBNER-ESCHENBACH What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible
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SYED SHARUKH Those who believe in goodness, know that goodness is a visible sign of any man of good character. Vi...
APURVA GAGLANI Light
Light
The visible reminder of Invisible Light.
T.S. ELIOT Invisible is where visible is created. Believe in the invisible, And you’ll see it materialized!
ROXANA JONES The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
OSCAR WILDE An invisible dream will become visible if acted upon.
SCOTTIE SOMERS We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
NOVALIS Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
TONY ROBBINS Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
ANTHONY ROBBINS Thought; the dwelling home of the invisible thing that commands the visible things
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I am seeking for the bridge which leans from the visible to the invisible through reality.
MAX BECKMANN As Christians we should believe that the invisible things are more powerful than the visible things.
SUNDAY ADELAJA It's hard being visible, so I've made myself invisible.
DANIELLE STEEL I like to describe myself as a proudly visible member of the most invisible segments of our society ...
CINDY GALLOP As Christians, the invisible things are supposed to be more real to us than the visible things.
SUNDAY ADELAJA How we feel should be determined by the invisible things and not the visible and material things.
SUNDAY ADELAJA For the outer sense alone perceives visible things and the eye of the heart alone seeds the invisibl...
RICHARD OF SAINT-VICTOR Life is like a visible tree which is physical in nature,but controlled by invisible roots which is t...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and an invisible labor...
VICTOR HUGO A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labour and an invisible labo...
VICTOR HUGO Grey has no agenda. . . . Grey has the ability, that no other colour has, to make the invisible visi...
ROMA TEARNE A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible l...
VICTOR HUGO A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labour and there is invisible ...
VICTOR HUGO This is not an increasing phenomenon, but what has happened since Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans ...
ALAN CLAPSADDLE People say sometimes that Beauty is superficial. That may be so. But at least it is not so superfici...
OSCAR WILDE A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisi...
VICTOR HUGO The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in in...
VLADIMIR NABOKOV The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in in...
VLADIMIR NABOKOV A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL There are beings which exist outside the human eyes' visible light spectrum. They are only a fractio...
TOBA BETA The living cell almost always contains, locked in its interior, the visible or invisible products of...
ALBRECHT KOSSEL It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visi...
OSCAR WILDE The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musi...
LEONARDO DA VINCI It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visi...
OSCAR WILDE I believe experiencing true friendship is a gift of God! We learn love for him who is invisible, by ...
GARY SEIERSTAD Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible God and destroys a visible Nature. Unaware ...
HUBERT REEVES This is the power of myth: that we can experience invisible spiritual realities and truths greater t...
JOHN GRANGER But the whole idea of the transformation... mystery, transformation, and manipulations - those were ...
ROBERT BARNES A fantasy of mine is to do a podcast that's Marcel Marceau and I, and you only hear me laughing ...
ZACH GALIFIANAKIS EPIPHANY Invisible in His own nature [God] became visible in ours. Beyond our grasp, He chose to...
LEO THE GREAT My goal on campus is to get the awareness out and make these invisible children visible this is not ...
JUSTIN PITTS Thoughts, feelings, or ideas are invisible until you speak, write, express, or create it to make it ...
RODEL NATIVIDAD CASIO I think if women are visible in the media, truly visible, in an empowered role, it empowers us to be...
GLORIA STEINEM The body, in fact, and only the body, is capable of making visible what is invisible: the spiritual ...
POPE JOHN PAUL II Astronomers sometimes observe that a star of medium magnitude increases suddenly in size; a star inv...
FREDERIC JOLIOT-CURIE Each time the university adds more buildings, there are visible and invisible impacts to the neighbo...
LARRY HESTER But the whole idea of the transformation... mystery, transformation, and manipulations - those were ...
ROBERT BARNES Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed.
A.A. MILNE We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet.
Even longer,' Pooh answered.”
...
A.A. MILNE We begin to fight. The wind and I. Horns locked. Battling each other with elements.
LAURA DOCKRILL Begin to look at the dream that is not yet visible and those invisible forces that the Lord sets in ...
SUNDAY ADELAJA For us it's a visible reminder of the season.
JENNIFER MORRISON If you want to change the fruits, you will first have to change the roots. If you want to change the...
T. HARV EKER In this life, one can choose to make themselves visible for the world to see, or invisibly slither a...
K.O. BAILEY Even the heavenly powers and the angels in their splendor and the principalities, both visible and i...
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH Storytelling is ultimately a creative act of pattern recognition. Through characters, plot and setti...
DOUGLAS COUPLAND The severe schools shall never laugh me out of the philosophy of Hermes, that this visible world is...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Everything visible has a flip side, like a coin.
SUNDAY ADELAJA A kiss is the outward visible sign of an inward fever.
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STEPHEN CHBOSKY These Supreme Court nominees are probably the most visible positions that a Democratic politician is...
CALVIN JILLSON Crossing the Penobscot, one found a visible descent in the scale of humanity.
FRANCIS PARKMAN Love is a growing, or full constant light,
And his first minute, after noon, is night.
JOHN DONNE You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES They've been so unabashed about making them permanent. Now that it's a visible piece of their budget...
JOEL FRIEDMAN A prejudice is a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.
AMBROSE BIERCE PREJUDICE, n. A vagrant opinion without visible means of support.
AMBROSE BIERCE Work is love made visible.
KAHLIL GIBRAN It is too large, it is too in-your-face, it is too visible.
BARRY HAWKINS He's not as visible as I would like him to be. I think he should be doing more PR and have a larger ...
CARL COOPER Though 'Truth' is abstract, yet it is visible.
KIMTO OCHE EMMANUEL Dancing is creating a sculpture that is visible only for a moment.
EROL OZAN A modern, harmonic and lively architecture is the visible sign of an authentic democracy.
WALTER GROPIUS What do we call visible light? We call it color. But the electromagnetic spectrum runs to zero in on...
ANTHONY DOERR You have to have visible communication from the top,
DAVID WALKER Sometimes it's not visible, but the kids all know.
JANE LOWE There is a more visible presence, with Australians, Canadians and Brits.
BOB LEE Fine art is knowledge made visible.
GUSTAVE COURBET To name is to make visible.
MARGARET J. WHEATLEY Everything that is visible is temporal.
SUNDAY ADELAJA The rarest, truest beauty is visible only to the heart.
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH The cause is hidden. The effect is visible to all.
OVID Everybody wears a visible harness. There are visible ropes all over the stage, both for gorillas and...
THOMAS SCHUMACHER The resulting prints of 'History's Shadow' make the invisible visible and express throug...
DAVID MAISEL To call the population of strangers in the midst of which we live "society" is such a usurpation tha...
THE INVISIBLE COMMITTEE We have been expropriated from our own language by television, from our songs by reality TV contests...
THE INVISIBLE COMMITTEE The situation is like this: they hired our parents to destroy this world, and now they'd like to put...
THE INVISIBLE COMMITTEE All there is to thinking is seeing something noticeable which makes you see something you weren't no...
NORMAN MACLEAN All there is to thinking is seeing something noticeable, which makes you see something you weren't n...
LEO STRAUSS It is a visible monument to past history and heroics on part of the keepers.
DAVID PATERNO I believe only in one God, creator of everything that exists, visible and invisible, good and evil. ...
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MARCEL PROUST In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.
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MARCEL PROUST There can be no piece of mind in love, since the advantage one has secured is never anything but a f...
MARCEL PROUST Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliber...
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MARCEL PROUST The only thing that does not change is that at any and every time it appears that there have been "g...
MARCEL PROUST Our memory is like a shop in the window of which is exposed now one, now another photograph of the...
MARCEL PROUST I feel that, for each show I've been doing, there's a character that dominates. Then in the ...
MARCEL DZAMA But a science is exact to the extent that its method measures up to and is adequate to its object.
GABRIEL MARCEL It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.
GABRIEL MARCEL On a grassroots level we say that man can touch more than he can grasp.
GABRIEL MARCEL Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.
GABRIEL MARCEL The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring bat...
GABRIEL MARCEL But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of.
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GABRIEL MARCEL Contemporary thinkers would say that man is continuously transcending himself.
GABRIEL MARCEL Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics.
GABRIEL MARCEL The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is Possible.
GABRIEL MARCEL Metaphysics is a science.
GABRIEL MARCEL Women like silent men. They think they're listening.
MARCEL ARCHARD Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.
ANTHONY MARCEL As the Arab proverb says, The dog barks and the caravan passes. After having dropped this quotation,...
MARCEL PROUST I was not one man only but the steady advance hour after hour of an army in close formation, in whic...
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MARCEL PROUST The fixity of habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
MARCEL PROUST Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.
MARCEL PROUST Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our sou...
MARCEL PROUST Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
MARCEL PROUST The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
MARCEL PROUST My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
MARCEL PROUST To really know someone is to have loved and hated him in turn.
MARCEL JOUHANDEAU That translucent alabaster of our memories.
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MARCEL PROUST We become moral when we are unhappy.
MARCEL PROUST People have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the o...
MARCEL PROUST The moments of the past do not remain still; they retain in our memory the motion which drew them to...
MARCEL PROUST Our intellect is not the most subtle, the most powerful, the most appropriate, instrument for reveal...
MARCEL PROUST When the mind has a tendency to dream, it is a mistake to keep dreams away from it, to ration its dr...
MARCEL PROUST I understood that all the material of a literary work was in my past life, I understood that I had a...
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MARCEL DUCHAMP The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
MARCEL PROUST Often it is just lack of imagination that keeps a man from suffering very much.
MARCEL PROUST A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.
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MARCEL PROUST The mistakes made by doctors are innumerable. They err habitually on the side of optimism as to trea...
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MARCEL PROUST There's nothing like desire to prevent the things one says from having any resemblance to the things...
MARCEL PROUST We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes.
MARCEL PROUST Impelled by a state of mind which is destined not to last, we make our irrevocable decisions.
MARCEL PROUST All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
MARCEL PROUST Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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MARCEL PROUST A cathedral, a wave of storm, a dancer's leap, never turn out to be as high as we had hoped.
MARCEL PROUST The regularity of a habit is generally in proportion to its absurdity.
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MARCEL PROUST It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions.
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MARCEL PROUST The more the world is specialized the more it will be run by generalists.
MARCEL MASSE The human plagiarism which is most difficult to avoid, for individuals... is the plagiarism of ourse...
MARCEL PROUST The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplora...
MARCEL PROUST A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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MARCEL PROUST Neurosis has an absolute genius for malingering. There is no illness which it cannot counterfeit per...
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MARCEL PAGNOL A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not l...
MARCEL PROUST The individual, man as a man, man as a brain, if you like, interests me more than what he makes, bec...
MARCEL DUCHAMP Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge we make promise only; pain...
MARCEL PROUST I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art -- and much more. It cannot be commercial...
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MARCEL DUCHAMP The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing.
MARCEL PROUST It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to...
MARCEL PROUST People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
MARCEL PROUST I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.
MARCEL DUCHAMP There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
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MARCEL PROUST It is comforting when one has a sorrow to lie in the warmth of one's bed and there, abandoning all e...
MARCEL PROUST The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure...
MARCEL ACHARD We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as place...
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MARCEL PROUST The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
MARCEL PROUST We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it in full.
MARCEL PROUST Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey
MARCEL PROUST Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
MARCEL PROUST Rational intelligence is dangerous and leads to ratiocination. The painter is a medium who doesn'...
MARCEL DUCHAMP Alchemy is a kind of philosophy: a kind of thinking that leads to a way of understanding.
MARCEL DUCHAMP Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
MARCEL PROUST Words are the tools of 'to be' - of expression. They are completely built on the fact that y...
MARCEL DUCHAMP Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at le...
MARCEL PROUST We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
MARCEL PROUST The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
MARCEL PROUST The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
MARCEL PROUST Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
MARCEL PROUST Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes ...
MARCEL PROUST We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
MARCEL PROUST What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us.
MARCEL PROUST We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in w...
MARCEL PROUST Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.
MARCEL PROUST Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
MARCEL PROUST We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take ...
MARCEL PROUST Love is space and time measured by the heart.
MARCEL PROUST Love is a reciprocal torture.
MARCEL PROUST The only paradise is paradise lost.
MARCEL PROUST Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
MARCEL PROUST The word 'art' interests me very much. If it comes from Sanskrit, as I've heard, it sign...
MARCEL DUCHAMP I like living, breathing better than working... Each second, each breath is a work which is inscribe...
MARCEL DUCHAMP I try not to censor myself at all.
MARCEL DZAMA But, when nothing subsists of an old past, after the death of people, after the destruction of thing...
MARCEL PROUST People are not always very tolerant of the tears which they themselves have provoked.
MARCEL PROUST Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.
ANTHONY MARCEL One has to look out for engineers - they begin with sewing machines and end up with the atomic bomb.
MARCEL PAGNOL Since the tubes of paint used by the artist are manufactured and ready-made products, we must conclu...
MARCEL DUCHAMP In the 'Nude Descending a Staircase,' I wanted to create a static image of movement: movemen...
MARCEL DUCHAMP Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls b...
MARCEL PROUST If your choice enters into it, then taste is involved - bad taste, good taste, uninteresting taste. ...
MARCEL DUCHAMP You have to approach something with indifference, as if you had no aesthetic emotion. The choice of ...
MARCEL DUCHAMP Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
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MARCEL ACHARD There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a w...
MARCEL PROUST It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions
MARCEL PROUST I am against the word 'anti' because it's a little bit like 'atheist,' as compar...
MARCEL DUCHAMP Jean's desires, like those of all men in love, were concentrated on the impossible.
MARCEL PROUST When cubism began to take a social form, Metzinger was especially talked about. He explained cubism,...
MARCEL DUCHAMP 'Art or anti-art?' was the question I asked when I returned from Munich in 1912 and decided ...
MARCEL DUCHAMP It's incredible how many emotions you feel when crossing the finish line and seeing that you are...
MARCEL HIRSCHER As soon as we start putting our thoughts into words and sentences everything gets distorted, languag...
MARCEL DUCHAMP The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us ...
MARCEL PROUST Painter after painter, since the beginning of the century, has tended toward abstraction. First, the...
MARCEL DUCHAMP Distortion came first from the fauves, who, in turn, were under the strong influence of primitive ar...
MARCEL DUCHAMP Why are all the artists so dead-set on distorting? It seems to be a reaction against photography, bu...
MARCEL DUCHAMP I use dull colors in my drawings because I started out using a root beer base, because it seemed lik...
MARCEL DZAMA I refused to accept anything, doubted everything. So, doubting everything, I had to find something t...
MARCEL DUCHAMP I came to feel an artist might use anything - a dot, a line, the most conventional or unconventional...
MARCEL DUCHAMP In chess, there are some extremely beautiful things in the domain of movement, but not in the visual...
MARCEL DUCHAMP Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names...
MARCEL PROUST One does not contemplate it like a picture. The idea of contemplation disappears completely. Simply ...
MARCEL DUCHAMP And then, gradually, the memory of her would fade away, I had forgotten the girl of my dream.
MARCEL PROUST Humor and laughter - not necessarily derogatory derision - are my pet tools. This may come from my g...
MARCEL DUCHAMP When I put a bicycle wheel on a stool, the fork down, there was no idea of a 'ready-made' or...
MARCEL DUCHAMP There was an incident, in 1912, which 'gave me a turn,' so to speak: when I brought the '...
MARCEL DUCHAMP It is a mistake to speak of a bad choice in love, since as soon as a choice exists, it can only be b...
MARCEL PROUST One of a hostess's duties is to act as procuress.
MARCEL PROUST The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
MARCEL PROUST The charms of a passing woman are usually in direct relation to the speed of her passing.
MARCEL PROUST Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it p...
MARCEL PROUST When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is whe...
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MARCEL PROUST The only paradise is paradise lost
MARCEL PROUST Everything great that we know has come from neurotics… never will the world be aware of how much...
MARCEL PROUST The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, t...
MARCEL PAGNOL To really know someone is to have loved and hated him in turn.
MARCEL JOUHANDEAU Life is extraordinarily suave and sweet with certain natural, witty, affectionate people who have un...
MARCEL PROUST No exile at the South Pole or on the summit of Mont Blanc separates us more effectively from others ...
MARCEL PROUST A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.
MARCEL PROUST We feel in one world, we think and name in another. Between the two we can set up a system of refere...
MARCEL PROUST The one thing more difficult than following a regimen is not imposing it on others.
MARCEL PROUST Only through art can we get outside of ourselves and know another's view of the universe.
MARCEL PROUST Let us be grateful to people who make us happy: They are the charming gardeners who make our souls b...
MARCEL PROUST His hatred of snobs was a derivative of his snobbishness, but made the simpletons (in other words, e...
MARCEL PROUST A secret is not something unrevealed, but something told privately, in a whisper.
MARCEL PAGNOL Bird flu isn't over in Switzerland. We are not finding cases any more but on the other hand we can b...
MARCEL FALK There is something like an explosion in the meaning of certain words: they have a greater value than...
MARCEL DUCHAMP It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ou...
MARCEL PROUST One has to look out for engineers they begin with sewing machines and end up with the atomic bomb
MARCEL PAGNOL Honor is like a match, you can only use it once.
MARCEL PAGNOL In the midst of each epoch, I fully realize that a new epoch will dawn.
MARCEL DUCHAMP The entire world of art has reached such a low level, it has been commercialized to such a degree th...
MARCEL DUCHAMP What art is, in reality, is this missing link, not the links which exist. It's not what you see ...
MARCEL DUCHAMP People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura of life which bears no rel...
MARCEL PROUST