Marcel Duchamp Quotes
Top 90 wise famous quotes and sayings by Marcel Duchamp
Marcel Duchamp Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
I feel shame, not for the wrong things I have done, but for the right things that I have failed to do.
It's true, of course, humor is very important in my life, as you know. That's the only reason for living, in fact.
Man can never expect to start from scratch; he must start from ready-made things, like even his own mother and father.
I thought to discourage aesthetics ... I threw the bottlerack and the urinal in their faces and now they admire them for their aesthetic beauty.
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.
The artist performs only one part of the creative process. The onlooker completes it, and it is the onlooker who has the last word.
Chess players are madmen of a certain quality, the way the artist is supposed to be, and isn't, in general.
This concern which interests us more than anything else: the blurring of the distinction between art and life.
Painting is a language of its own. You cannot interpret one form of expression with another form of expression.
Distortion came first from the fauves, who, in turn, were under the strong influence of primitive art.
You cannot define electricity. The same can be said of art. It is a kind of inner current in a human being, or something which needs no definition.
In the creative act, the artist goes from intention to realization through a chain of totally subjective reactions.
One is a painter because one wants so-called freedom; one doesn't want to go to the office every morning.
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.
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.
When the vision of the 'Nude' flashed upon me, I knew that it would break forever the enslaving chains of Naturalism.
If your choice enters into it, then taste is involved - bad taste, good taste, uninteresting taste. Taste is the enemy of art, A-R-T.
Things were sort of Bohemian in Montmartre - one lived, one painted, one was a painter - all that doesn't mean anything, fundamentally.
Among our articles of lazy hardware, I recommend the faucet that stops dripping when no one is listening to it.
I was highly attracted to chess for forty or forty-five years; then, little by little, my enthusiasm lessened.
I was interested in ideas, not in visual products. I wanted to put painting again in the service of the mind.
In New York in 1915 I bought at a hardware store a snow shovel on which I wrote in advance of the broken arm .
I really had no program or any established plan. I didn't even ask myself if I should sell my paintings or not.
My position is the lack of a position, but, of course, you can't even talk about it; the minute you talk, you spoil the whole game.
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.
I believe that the artist doesn't know what he does. I attach even more importance to the spectator than to the artist.
I happen to have been born a Cartesian. The French education is based on a sequence of strict logic. You carry it with you.
There is something like an explosion in the meaning of certain words: they have a greater value than their meaning in the dictionary.
I didn't abandon everything at a moment's notice - on the contrary. I returned to France from America, leaving the 'Large Glass' unfinished.
Why are all the artists so dead-set on distorting? It seems to be a reaction against photography, but I'm not sure.
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.
I came to feel an artist might use anything - a dot, a line, the most conventional or unconventional symbol - t say what he wanted to say.
The life of an artist is like the life of a monk, a lewd monk if you like, very Rabelaisian. It is an ordination.