Readymade Quotes

#1. It might be an idea for all literary critics to read the books they analyse aloud - it certainly helps to fix them in the mind, while providing a readymade seminar with your audience.

Will Self

#2. We must escape and help others to escape the two readymade formulas of the pure sexual encounter and the lovers' fusion of identities.

Michel Foucault

#3. National parks, zoos, protected areas, polluted seas - using the whole world as a readymade, I thought about it as a stage set. To activate a stage set you need a drama, an actor to offset it.

Aleksandra Mir

#4. The pool of illegal immigrants is like a qualified bunch of people. You don't have to do surveys. You don't have to interview them. You know they are ready-made Democrat voters. Not only that, they are readymade Democrat constituents.

Rush Limbaugh

#5. The great problem was the selection of the readymade. I needed to choose an object without it impressing me: that is to say, without it providing any sort of aesthetic delectation. Moreover, I needed to reduce my own personal taste to absolute zero.

Marcel Duchamp

#6. 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

#7. One does not contemplate it like a picture. The idea of contemplation disappears completely. Simply take note that it's a bottle rack, or that it's a bottle rack that has changed its destination ... It's not the visual question of the readymade that counts; it's the fact that it exists, even.

Marcel Duchamp

#8. Like life, racial understanding is not something that we find but something that we must create. And so the ability of Negroes and whites to work together, to understand each other, will not be found readymade; it must be created by the fact of contact.

Coretta Scott King

#9. Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in the world lack these luxuries. How do you practice without such tryout venues?

Margaret Atwood

#10. In India we have a readymade world of fantasy available in Indian mythology. And this is why we see such a surfeit of characters drawn from mythology. I don't think it's because the present day humanity is soulless.

Anita Nair

#11. How you walk with the little that you have been given is all that God needs to determine if you are ready to be released in His

Andrew Mullek

#12. Sometimes you have to walk through the fire, in order to reach your calling.

Shannon L. Alder

#13. My wife thinks she's better than me at puzzles. I haven't given in on that one yet.

Bill Gates

#14. Too much apology doubles the offense.

James Richardson

#15. The minute you think you can outsmart life, that's when life will outsmart you.

Kim Askew

#16. Don't Settle for Mediocrity. Strive for Excellence

Mac James

#17. The larger meaning here is that mainstream journalists simply cannot talk about things that the two parties agree on; this is the black hole of American politics.

Michael Pollan

#18. He that lives well sees a farre off.

George Herbert

#19. I have a Thompson SubMachine gun and we shoot sharks with it. As soon as they put their heads out we give them a burst.

Ernest Hemingway,

#20. Discernment is trust put into practice.

Peter Santos