the missing link; art, adventure, expression (28 July 2016)

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

- Marcel Duchamp

Marcel Duchamp, The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (The Large Glass), 1915-23


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

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

Ben Quilty, detail [source]


I consider painting as a means of expression, not as a goal.

- Marcel Duchamp

With opportunity the world is very interesting.

- Beatrix Potter

We cannot stay home all our lives, we must present ourselves to the world and we must look upon it as an adventure.

- Beatrix Potter

Sunday, January 27, 1884. -- There was another story in the paper a week or so since. A gentleman had a favourite cat whom he taught to sit at the dinner table where it behaved very well. He was in the habit of putting any scraps he left onto the cat's plate. One day puss did not take his place punctually, but presently appeared with two mice, one of which it placed on its master's plate, the other on its own.