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What art is, in reality, is this missing link, not the links which exist. It's not what you see that is art; art is the gap.
— Marcel Duchamp
Ideas are substitutes for sorrows...
— Marcel Proust
But sometimes the future is latent in us without our knowing it, and our supposedly lying words foreshadow an imminent reality.
— Marcel Proust
We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
— Marcel Proust
Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination.
— Marcel Proust
This rubicund youth, with his blunt features, appeared for all the world to have a tomato instead of a head.
— Marcel Proust
Say not: I live today, I shall die tomorrow. Divide not reality between life and death. Say: now I live and die.
— Marcel Schwob
What would I do with money? I have enough for my needs. I don't want any more. If I had a lot, I would have to care for it, worry about it.
— Marcel Duchamp
His work kept on living, like the watches on the wrists of dead soldiers. [Said of Marcel Proust]
— Jean Cocteau
The artist performs only one part of the creative process. The onlooker completes it, and it is the onlooker who has the last word.
— Marcel Duchamp
Marcel, no more painting; go get a job.
— Marcel Duchamp
But I still always felt the absence of a mother.
— Marcel Carne
This concern which interests us more than anything else: the blurring of the distinction between art and life.
— Marcel Duchamp
It is the spectators who make the pictures.
— Marcel Duchamp
It's better to choose the culprits than to seek them out.
— Marcel Pagnol
Alchemy is a kind of philosophy: a kind of thinking that leads to a way of understanding.
— Marcel Duchamp
I've decided that art is a habit-forming drug. That's all it is, for the artist, for the collector, for anybody connected with it.
— Marcel Duchamp
The breath of the enchanted wind mingles the fresh scent of the lilacs with the fragrance of the past.
— Marcel Proust
I was poking fun at myself most of all.
— Marcel Duchamp
Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
— Marcel Proust
Humor is the only reason to live.
— Marcel Duchamp
When a man is asleep, he has in a circle round him the chain of the hours, the sequence of the years, the order of the heavenly host.
— Marcel Proust
A company can seize extra-ordinary opportunities only if it is very good at the ordinary operations.
— Marcel Herrmann Telles
The stellar universe is not so difficult of comprehension as the real actions of other people.
— Marcel Proust
Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
— Marcel Proust
Nobility is often no more than the inner aspect which our egotistical feelings assume when we have not yet named and classified them.
— Marcel Proust
We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
— Marcel Proust
It was not evil that gave her the idea of pleasure, that seemed to her attractive; it was pleasure, rather, that seemed evil.
— Marcel Proust
What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us.
— Marcel Proust
We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
— Marcel Proust
Women like silent men. They think they're listening.
— Marcel Achard
We feel in one world, we think and name in another. Between the two we can set up a system of references, but we cannot fill in the gap.
— Marcel Proust
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
— Marcel Proust
An hour is not merely an hour; it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.
— Marcel Proust
I could no longer desire physically without feeling a need for her, without suffering from her absence.
— Marcel Proust
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
— Marcel Proust
She was capable of causing me pain, but no longer any joy. Pain alone kept my wearisome attachment alive.
— Marcel Proust
I was highly attracted to chess for forty or forty-five years; then, little by little, my enthusiasm lessened.
— Marcel Duchamp
Presently, one after another, like shyly hopping sparrows, her friends arrived, black against the snow.
— Marcel Proust
His strength was restored and, with it, all his desires to live; he went out, began living again, and died a second time for himself.
— Marcel Proust
always wrapped in the mystery of the Merovingian age,
— Marcel Proust
A language which we do not know is a fortress sealed.
— Marcel Proust
Gardeners produce flowers that are delicious dreams, and others too that are like nightmares.
— Marcel Proust
I'm not a trained dancer in the slightest.
— Marcel Dzama
Left with me were more difficult to extinguish than the memory of their original cause.
— Marcel Proust
The only paradise is paradise lost.
— Marcel Proust
Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another.
— Marcel Duchamp
We remember an atmosphere because girls were smiling in it.
— Marcel Proust
Friendship is in the end no more than: " ... a lie which seeks to make us believe that we are not irremediably alone."
— Marcel Proust
Look: each moment is a cradle and a casket: may all life and all death seem strange to you.
— Marcel Schwob
I longed for nothing more than to behold a stormy sea, less as a mighty spectacle than as a momentary revelation of the true life of nature;
— Marcel Proust
I consider painting as a means of expression, not as a goal.
— Marcel Duchamp
I must choose to cease from suffering or to cease from loving.
— Marcel Proust
Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now.
— Marcel Proust
I'm not at all sure that the concept of the readymade isn't the most important single idea to come out of my work.
— Marcel Duchamp
"Why did you not forget your heart also? I should never have let you have that back." ...
— Marcel Proust
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Now my uncle knew many of them [actresses] personally, and also ladies of another class, not clearly distinguished from actresses in my mind.
— Marcel Proust
Nothing is worth putting my health on the line. Not a camera, not a title, nothing.
— Marcel Hirscher
A mime is a terrible thing to waste.
— Marcel Marceau
I believe that the artist doesn't know what he does. I attach even more importance to the spectator than to the artist.
— Marcel Duchamp
It was impossible for me to thank my father; what he called my sentimentality would have exasperated him.
— Marcel Proust
So long as I know what's boiling in my pot I don't bother my head about what's in other people's.
— Marcel Proust
There is nothing like desire for obstructing any resemblance between what one says and what one has on one's mind.
— Marcel Proust
Our shadows, now parallel, now close together and joined, traced an exquisite pattern at our feet.
— Marcel Proust
Let us be gratefulto people who
make us happy;
they are the
charming gardeners
who make our
souls bloom. — Marcel Proust
Wars are fought for the benefit of oligarchs, triumphs bought with the blood of peons.
— Marcel Proust
This is the sort of situation I enjoy: a game in the San Siro, a huge crowd and a night for big men. Remember, only victory is beautiful.
— Marcel Desailly
What most enraptured me were the asparagus.
— Marcel Proust
The inertia of the mind urges it to slide down the easy slope of imagination, rather than to climb the steep slope of introspection.
— Marcel Proust
The kiss, the bodily surrender which would seem natural and but moderately attractive ...
— Marcel Proust
I was not unhappy, except one day at a time.
— Marcel Proust
All the great writers are like that: the beauty of their sentences, like the beauty of a woman one has not yet met, is unforeseeable ...
— Marcel Proust
One might almost say that works of literature are like artesian wells, the deeper the suffering, the higher they rise.)
— Marcel Proust
It's nice to know that people appreciate and respect you.
— Marcel Carne
Action without Vision is Blind;Vision without Action is Lame ... — Richard Marcel I.
The oddities of charming people exasperate us, but there are few if any charming people who are not, at the same time, odd.
— Marcel Proust
Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.
— Marcel Marceau
In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
— Marcel Proust
It is the tragedy of other people that they are merely showcases for the very perishable collections of one's own mind.
— Marcel Proust
Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.
— Marcel Proust
Art should grasp the mind the way the vagina grasps the penis-Marcel Duchamp
— Alice Goldfarb Marquis
