Marcel Duchamp Quotes
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I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.
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I consider painting as a means of expression, not as a goal.
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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.
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I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products.
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My art would be that of living: each moment, each breath is a work inscribed nowhere.
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In New York in 1915 I bought at a hardware store a snow shovel on which I wrote in advance of the broken arm .
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I feel shame, not for the wrong things I have done, but for the right things that I have failed to do.
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Destruction is also creation.
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In the creative act, the artist goes from intention to realization through a chain of totally subjective reactions.
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Society takes what it wants. The artist himself does not count, because there is no actual existence for the work of art. The work of art is always based on the two poles of the onlooker and the maker, and the spark that comes from the bipolar action gives birth to something - like electricity. But the onlooker has the last word, and it is always posterity that makes the masterpiece. The artist should not concern himself with this, because it has nothing to do with him.
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I don’t care about the word ‘art’ because it has been so discredited. So I want to get rid of it. There is an unnecessary adoration of ‘art’ today.
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Art is not about itself but the attention we bring to it.
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Artmaking is making the invisible, visible.
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The artist performs only one part of the creative process. The onlooker completes it, and it is the onlooker who has the last word.
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Do unto others as they wish, but with imagination.
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I believe that the artist doesn't know what he does. I attach even more importance to the spectator than to the artist.
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Anything is art if an artist says it is.
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Art has the lovely habit of ruining all artistic theories.
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The life of a chess master is much more difficult than that of an artist - much more depressing. An artist knows that someday there'll be recognition and monetary reward, but for the chess master there is little public recognition and absolutely no hope of supporting himself by his endeavors. If Bobby Fischer came to me for advice, I certainly would not discourage him - as if anyone could - but I would try to make it positively clear that he will never have any money from chess, live a monk-like existence and know more rejection than any artist ever has, struggling to be known and accepted.
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You know exactly what I think of photography. I would like to see it make people despise painting until something else will make photography unbearable. (In a letter to Alfred Stieglitz)
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Chess is a sport. A violent sport.
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Art has absolutely no existence as veracity, as truth.
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It's not what you see that is art. Art is the gap.
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Chess players are madmen of a certain quality, the way the artist is supposed to be, and isn't, in general.
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Unless a picture shocks, it is nothing.
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In the last analysis, the artist may shout from all the rooftops that he is a genius; he will have to wait for the verdict of posterity.
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The curious thing about that moustache and goatee is that when you look at the Mona Lisa it becomes a man. It is not a woman disguised as a man; it is a real man, and that was my discovery, without realising it at the time.
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Humor is the only reason to live.
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There is no solution, for there is no problem.
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The Chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chessboard, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem
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