Marcel Duchamp Quotes - Page 2

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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.

  Marcel Duchamp

  Done, Shame, Feels

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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.

  Marcel Duchamp

  Beautiful, Art, Oasis

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

  Marcel Duchamp

  Artist, Player, Chess

  "Drawing on Art: Duchamp and Company".

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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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• The most interesting thing about artists is how they live

  Marcel Duchamp

  Artist, Interesting, Most Interesting

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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.

  Marcel Duchamp

  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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• 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.

  Marcel Duchamp

  Two, Shadow, Three

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

  Marcel Duchamp

  Mean, Expression, Goal

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• To all appearances the artist acts like a mediumistic being who, from the labyrinth beyond time and space, seeks his way out to a clearing. If we give the attributes of a medium to the artist, we must then deny him the state of consciousness on the aesthetic plane about what he is doing or why he is doing it. All this decisions in the artistic execution of the work rest with pure intuition and cannot be translated into a self-analysis, spoken or written, or even thought out.

  Marcel Duchamp

  Artist, Self, Space

  ART-news, 56. no. 4, 1957.

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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.

  Marcel Duchamp

  Ideas, Mind, Painting

  "Dialogues with Marcel Duchamp".

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

  Marcel Duchamp

  Art, Believe, Dies

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• Aesthetic delectation is the danger to be avoided.

  Marcel Duchamp

  Danger, Aesthetic, Avoided

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• In my day artists wanted to be outcasts, pariahs. Now they are all integrated into society

  Marcel Duchamp

  Artist, Outcast, Pariahs

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

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  Problem, No Problem, Solutions

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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.

  Marcel Duchamp

  Important, Facts, Reason

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• It is the spectators who make the pictures.

  Marcel Duchamp

  Spectators

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• This concern which interests us more than anything else: the blurring of the distinction between art and life.

  Marcel Duchamp

  Art, Distinction, Interest

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• Art has absolutely no existence as veracity, as truth.

  Marcel Duchamp

  Art, Existence, Veracity

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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.

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  Art, Breathing, Euphoria

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

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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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• 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

  Art, Drug, Habit

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• Since a three-dimensional object casts a two-dimensional shadow, we should be able to imagine the unknown four-dimensional object whose shadow we are. I for my part am fascinated by the search for a one-dimensional object that casts no shadow at all.

  Marcel Duchamp

  Two, Shadow, Three

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