Marcel's Quotes: top 100 famous quotes about Marcel's

Marcel's Quotes & Sayings

Happy to read and share the best inspirational Marcel's quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.

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

There's nothing like desire to prevent the things one says from having any resemblance to the things in one's mind. — Marcel Proust

As to my heart, since I have worn an eighty franc corset I do not hear it, and I am very much afraid that I have left it in one of Marcel's drawers. — Henri Murger

Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination. — Marcel Proust

It's incredible how many emotions you feel when crossing the finish line and seeing that you are No. 1. — Marcel Hirscher

It's true, of course, humor is very important in my life, as you know. That's the only reason for living, in fact. — Marcel Duchamp

This rubicund youth, with his blunt features, appeared for all the world to have a tomato instead of a head. — Marcel Proust

But the presence of Odette continued to sow in Swann's heart alternate seeds of love and suspicion. — Marcel Proust

In the V-shaped opening of her crape bodice Mlle. Vinteuil felt the sting of her friend's sudden kiss; ... — Marcel Proust

It's the viewer that makes the work. — Marcel Duchamp

All the mind's activity is easy if it is not subjected to reality. — 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

Art is like a shipwreck; it's every man for himself. — Marcel Duchamp

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

"In France," Marcel said with wintry dignity, "accidents occur in the bedroom, not the kitchen." — S.J Perelman

Marcel, no more painting; go get a job. — Marcel Duchamp

A lot of people are upset that I'm not working. They say it's a disgrace. — Marcel Carne

It is the spectators who make the pictures. — Marcel Duchamp

Apparently Jamie is great at being soft and hard at the same time. Which is hard to do for an actor! He's going to get an Oscar! — Kelly Marcel

It's risky in a marriage for a man to come home too late, but it can sometimes pose an even greater risk if he comes home too early. — Marcel Achard

When you do a rewrite, it's really about serving the director's vision, and what the director needs to go into that script. — Kelly Marcel

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

My father's sister never married in order to raise me. — Marcel Carne

I didn't abandon everything at a moment's notice - on the contrary. I returned to France from America, leaving the 'Large Glass' unfinished. — Marcel Duchamp

Music conveys moods and images. Even in opera, where plots deal with the structure of destiny, it's music, not words, that provides power. — Marcel Marceau

There's no solution, because there's no problem — Marcel Duchamp

Do you think it possible for a woman really to be touched by a man's being in love with her, and never to be unfaithful to him? — Marcel Proust

The truth isn't meant to be pretty, that's for beauty pageants. — Marc Marcel

I actually prefer the silent black and white version of the Wizard Of Oz from the 20's. — Marcel Dzama

To think that I wasted years of my life, that I wanted to die, that I felt my deepest love, for a woman who did not appeal to me, who was not my type! — Marcel Proust

I make art primarily for myself and to show my friends so I guess it's important to make art that they can connect to. — Marcel Dzama

I also won one from the emperor of Japan, with a prize for the arts. That's important. — Marcel Carne

Certainly, it is more reasonable to devote one's life to women than to postage stamps, old snuff-boxes, or even to paintings and statues. — Marcel Proust

[It's] long been known that making fun of oneself is only a way of taking oneself seriously slightly less crude than others. 97 — Marcel Benabou

The kiss, the bodily surrender which would seem natural and but moderately attractive ... — Marcel Proust

A picture's beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it. — Marcel Proust

You can't learn the truth about a man's intentions by asking him. — Marcel Proust

But one never finds a cathedral, a wave in a storm, a dancer's leap in the air quite as high as one has been expecting; — Marcel Proust

The courage of one's opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the 'other side' ... — Marcel Proust

When you work to please others you can't succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance of catching someone's interest. — Marcel Proust

The young woman's smiling lips met his caresses halfway, and her eyes shone in their depths like pools warmed by the sun. — Marcel Proust

It's difficult for a company to be anywhere interesting in a world that is so dominated by prototypes and great and bright ideas. — Marcel Wanders

Fall in love with a dog's bum,
And thou'll think it pretty as a plum. — Marcel Proust

In most women's lives, everything, even the greatest sorrow, comes down to a question of 'I haven't got a thing to wear'. — Marcel Proust

She's got feet like boats, whiskers like an American, and her undies are filthy. — Marcel Proust

Modern architecture is not a style, it's an attitude — Marcel Breuer

I've been very fortunate in my art career. It's something I would never have expected. — Marcel Dzama

After a certain age, the more one becomes oneself, the more obvious one's family traits become. — Marcel Proust

It's good to shut up sometimes. — Marcel Marceau

There is no doubt that a person's charms are less frequently a cause of love than a remark such as: 'No, this evening I shan't be free'. — Marcel Proust

I read Hesse's Steppenwolf thrice. The first time I was enchanted, the second time disappointed, the third time appalled. — Marcel Reich-Ranicki

A cathedral, a wave of a storm, a dancer's leap, never turn out to be as high as we had hoped. — 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

Friendship is in the end no more than: " ... a lie which seeks to make us believe that we are not irremediably alone." — Marcel Proust

Like an entirely cloudless sky when one is going mountaineering ... — Marcel Proust

Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude. — Marcel Proust

The loss of a sense adds as much beauty to the world as its acquisition. — 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

What had to move - a leaf of the chestnut tree, for instance - moved. — Marcel Proust

The 'Glass' is not my autobiography, nor is it self-expression. Far from it. — Marcel Duchamp

The most difficult secret for a man to keep is his own opinion of himself. — Marcel Pagnol

We remember an atmosphere because girls were smiling in it. — 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

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

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

It's far more difficult to disfigure a great work of art than to create one. — Marcel Proust

People always think it's unprofessional if your appearance doesn't match your biological sex. What does my gender have to do with my skills? — Marcel Weyers

How often is not the prospect of future happiness thus sacrificed to one's impatient insistence upon an immediate gratification. — Marcel Proust

I loved her; I was sorry not to have had the time and the inspiration to insult her, to do her some injury, to force her to keep some memory of me. — 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

Our shadows, now parallel, now close together and joined, traced an exquisite pattern at our feet. — Marcel Proust

Action without Vision is Blind;
Vision without Action is Lame ... — Richard Marcel I.

How paradoxical it is to search reality for the pictures that are stored in one's memory. — 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

Any mental activity is easy if it need not take reality into account. — Marcel Proust

Existence is of little interest save on days when the dust of realities is mingled with magic sand. — Marcel Proust

Each one of us is not a single person, but contains many persons who have not all the same moral value — Marcel Proust

I must choose to cease from suffering or to cease from loving. — Marcel Proust