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Marcel Duchamp Quote: 'A painting that doesn't shock isn't ...'

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Profession: Artist
Nationality: French
Birthday: July 28, 1887

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The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.
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Nothing can shock me.


Sheri Moon Zombie
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In order to produce learned fear, you take a neutral stimulus like a tone, and you pair it with an electrical shock. Tone, shock. Tone, shock. So the animal learns that the tone is bad news. But you can also do the opposite - shock it at other times, but never when the tone comes on.
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Just as the body goes into shock after a physical trauma, so does the human psyche go into shock after the impact of a major loss.
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I looked at my shoulder and saw a javelin stuck in it. I was in shock.


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I hate this image of me as a prim Edwardian. I want to shock everyone.


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I love painting.


Heidi Klum
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I don't set out to offend or shock, but I also don't do anything to avoid it.


Sarah Silverman
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We never really tried to shock for shock's sake on 'Family Guy'. If something was horribly offensive and shocking, we would put it in if it was also hysterically funny.
Seth MacFarlane
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Nature engenders the science of painting.


Robert Delaunay
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If a brutal scene is shown for no reason except to shock, then it is bad.


Cornel Wilde
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It's one of the functions of the theater to shock and titillate and appall, apart from entertain and delight.
Jacki Weaver
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Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.


Talib Kweli
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Painting is by nature a luminous language.


Robert Delaunay
To look at ourselves from afar, to make the subjective suddenly objective: this gives us a psychic shock.
Julian Barnes
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The worst part about celebrating another birthday is the shock that you're only as well as you are.


Anne Lamott
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Statistics do not convey emotion. They shock us for a minute or two, and then we click again.


Madeleine M. Kunin
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My hobbies are painting, crafts, and I like golfing.


Nancy Kerrigan
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My first artistic love was drawing and painting.


Wood Harris
You can't make a perfect painting. We can see perfection in our minds. But we can't make a perfect painting.
Agnes Martin
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