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Top 70 Marcel Duchamp Quotes (2024 Update)

Marcel Duchamp Quote: “Not all artists are Chess players, but all Chess players are artists.”
Marcel Duchamp Quote: “Anything is art if an artist says it is.”
Marcel Duchamp Quote: “There is no solution, for there is no problem.”
Marcel Duchamp Quote: “Destruction is also creation.”
Marcel Duchamp Quote: “I force myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.”
Marcel Duchamp Quote: “Artmaking is making the invisible, visible.”
Marcel Duchamp Quote: “I don’t believe in art. I believe in artists.”
Marcel Duchamp Quote: “Chess is a sport. A violent sport.”
Marcel Duchamp Quote: “The artist performs only one part of the creative process. The onlooker completes it, and it is the onlooker who has the last word.”
Marcel Duchamp Quote: “Chess players are madmen of a certain quality, the way the artist is supposed to be, and isn’t, in general.”
Marcel Duchamp Quote: “I feel shame, not for the wrong things I have done, but for the right things that I have failed to do.”
Marcel Duchamp Quote: “It is the spectators who make the pictures.”
Marcel Duchamp Quote: “The only thing that is not art is inattention.”
Marcel Duchamp Quote: “Humor is the only reason to live.”
Marcel Duchamp Quote: “I consider painting as a means of expression, not as a goal.”
Marcel Duchamp Quote: “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.”
Marcel Duchamp Quote: “It’s not what you see that is art. Art is the gap.”
Marcel Duchamp Quote: “Aesthetic delectation is the danger to be avoided.”
Marcel Duchamp Quote: “Unless a picture shocks, it is nothing.”
Marcel Duchamp Quote: “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.”
Marcel Duchamp Quote: “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 Quote: “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.”
Marcel Duchamp Quote: “Art is like a shipwreck; it’s every man for himself.”
Marcel Duchamp Quote: “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.”
Marcel Duchamp Quote: “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 Quote: “Since the tubes of paint used by the artist are manufactured and ready made products we must conclude that all the paintings in the world are ‘readymades aided’ and also works of assemblage.”
Marcel Duchamp Quote: “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.”
Marcel Duchamp Quote: “Art has the lovely habit of ruining all artistic theories.”
Marcel Duchamp Quote: “I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products.”
Marcel Duchamp Quote: “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.”
Marcel Duchamp Quote: “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.”
Marcel Duchamp Quote: “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.”
Marcel Duchamp Quote: “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 Quote: “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.”
Marcel Duchamp Quote: “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.”
Marcel Duchamp Quote: “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 Quote: “D’ailleurs c’est toujours les autres qui meurent.”
Marcel Duchamp Quote: “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 Quote: “In New York in 1915 I bought at a hardware store a snow shovel on which I wrote in advance of the broken arm .”
Marcel Duchamp Quote: “It’s the viewer that makes the work.”
Marcel Duchamp Quote: “Art is not about itself but the attention we bring to it.”
Marcel Duchamp Quote: “The word ‘art’ interests me very much. If it comes from Sanskrit, as I’ve heard, it signifies ’making.”
Marcel Duchamp Quote: “Traditionally, artists suffered for their art, now it’s the audience.”
Marcel Duchamp Quote: “Art has absolutely no existence as veracity, as truth.”
Marcel Duchamp Quote: “I was interested in ideas, not in visual products. I wanted to put painting again in the service of the mind.”
Marcel Duchamp Quote: “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.”
Marcel Duchamp Quote: “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 Quote: “Three or four drops of height have nothing to do with savageness.”
Marcel Duchamp Quote: “My art would be that of living: each moment, each breath is a work inscribed nowhere.”
Marcel Duchamp Quote: “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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