Marcel Duchamp Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
More Marcel Duchamp quote about:
- Art,
- Beauty,
- Chess,
- Creativity,
- Painting,
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“I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.”
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“Living is more a question of what one spends than what one makes.”
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“I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.”
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“Do unto others as they wish, but with imagination.”
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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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“Not all artists are Chess players, but all Chess players are artists”
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“The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act.”
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“It is the spectators who make the pictures.”
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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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“I was interested in ideas, not in visual products. I wanted to put painting again in the service of the mind.”
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“It's not what you see that is art. Art is the gap.”
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“As soon as we start putting our thoughts into words and sentences everything gets distorted, language is just no damn good—I use it because I have to, but I don’t put any trust in it. We never understand each other.”
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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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“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 his 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.”
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“I think there is a great deal to the idea of not doing a thing, but that when you do a thing, you don't do it in five minutes or in five hours, but in five years.”
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“I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products.”
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“Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another.”
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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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“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.”
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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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“I wanted to kill art for myself… …a new thought for that object.”
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“In my day artists wanted to be outcasts, pariahs. Now they are all integrated into society”
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“My art would be that of living: each moment, each breath is a work inscribed nowhere.”
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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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“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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