Marcel Duchamp Quotes - Page 2

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• I like living, breathing better than working...my art is that of living. Each second, each breath is a work which is inscribed nowhere, which is neither visual nor cerebral, it's a sort of constant euphoria.

  Marcel Duchamp

  Art, Breathing, Euphoria

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• It is the spectators who make the pictures.

  Marcel Duchamp

  Spectators

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• The most interesting thing about artists is how they live

  Marcel Duchamp

  Artist, Interesting, Most Interesting

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• Aesthetic delectation is the danger to be avoided.

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  Danger, Aesthetic, Avoided

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

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  Mean, Expression, Goal

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• The word 'art' interests me very much. If it comes from Sanskrit, as I've heard, it signifies 'making.

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  Art, Sanskrit, Interest

  Pierre Cabanne, Marcel Duchamp (1971). “Dialogues with Marcel Duchamp”, Studio

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• While all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.

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  Artist, Player, Chess

  "Drawing on Art: Duchamp and Company".

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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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  Art, Two, Giving

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• What I have in mind is that art may be bad, good or indifferent, but, whatever adjective is used, we must call it art, and bad art is still art in the same way that a bad emotion is still an emotion.

  Marcel Duchamp

  Art, Mind, Adjectives

  Arturo Schwarz, Marcel Duchamp (1997). “The complete works of Marcel Duchamp”, Delano Greenridge Editions

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

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  Important, Facts, Reason

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• The individual, man as a man, man as a brain, if you like, interests me more than what he makes, because I've noticed that most artists only repeat themselves.

  Marcel Duchamp

  Artist, Unique, Men

  Pierre Cabanne, Marcel Duchamp (1971). “Dialogues with Marcel Duchamp”, Studio

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• There is no solution, for there is no problem.

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  Problem, No Problem, Solutions

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• 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.

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  Art, Drug, Habit

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• The life of an artist is like the life of a monk, a lewd monk if you like, very Rabelaisian. It is an ordination.

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  Artist, Serenity, Monk

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• If a shadow is a two-dimensional projection of the three-dimensional world, then the three-dimensional world as we know it is the projection of the four-dimensional Universe.

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  Two, Shadow, Three

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• All this twaddle, the existence of God, atheism, determinism, liberation, societies, death, etc., are pieces of a chess game called language, and they are amusing only if one does not preoccupy oneself with 'winning or losing this game of chess.

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  Winning, Games, Chess Game

  Ecke Bonk, Marcel Duchamp (1989). “Marcel Duchamp, the box in a valise: De ou par Marcel Duchamp ou Rrose Sélavy : inventory of an edition”, Rizzoli Intl Pubns

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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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  Artist, Waiting, Analysis

  Arturo Schwarz, Marcel Duchamp (1997). “The complete works of Marcel Duchamp”, Delano Greenridge Editions

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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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  Done, Shame, Feels

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• My idea was to chose an object that wouldn't attract me, either by its beauty or by its ugliness. To find a point of indifference in my looking at it, you see

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  Ideas, Indifference, Objects

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• My art would be that of living: each moment, each breath is a work inscribed nowhere.

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  Art, Would Be, Moments

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• I have drawn people's attention to the fact that art is a mirage. A mirage, just like the oasis that appears in the desert. It is very beautiful, until the moment when you die of thirst, obviously. But we do not die of thirst in the field of art. The mirage has substance.

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  Beautiful, Art, Oasis

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• I believe that a picture, a work of art, lives and dies just as we do.

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  Art, Believe, Dies

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• Do unto others as they wish, but with imagination.

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  Imagination, Wish, Do Unto Others

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• I was interested in ideas, not merely visual products. I wanted to put painting once again at the service of the mind.

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  Ideas, Mind, Painting

  "Dialogues with Marcel Duchamp".

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• Living is more a question of what one spends than what one makes.

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