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Marcel Duchamp Quotes

I was highly attracted to chess for forty or forty-five years; then, little by little, my enthusiasm lessened Picture Quote #1

A game of chess is a visual and plastic thing, and if it isn’t geometric in the static sense of the word, it is mechanical, since it moves. It’s a drawing; it’s a mechanical reality Picture Quote #1

Art is a habit-forming drug. Art has absolutely no existence as veracity, as truth. People always speak of it with this great, religious reverence, but why should it be so revered? Picture Quote #1

You have to approach something with indifference, as if you had no aesthetic emotion. The choice of readymades is always based on visual indifference and, at the same time, on the total absence of good or bad taste Picture Quote #1

Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another Picture Quote #1

Chess is a sport. A violent sport Picture Quote #1

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I don’t believe in art. I believe in artists Picture Quote #1

I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products Picture Quote #1

Living is more a question of what one spends than what one makes Picture Quote #1

I wanted to kill art for myself… …a new thought for that object Picture Quote #1

Art is not about itself but the attention we bring to it Picture Quote #1

Do unto others as they wish, but with imagination Picture Quote #1

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Destruction is also creation Picture Quote #1

The most interesting thing about artists is how they live Picture Quote #1

It’s not what you see that is art. Art is the gap Picture Quote #1

Art has the lovely habit of ruining all artistic theories Picture Quote #1

Three or four drops of height have nothing to do with savageness Picture Quote #1

It is the spectators who make the pictures Picture Quote #1

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I consider painting as a means of expression, not as a goal Picture Quote #1

I was poking fun at myself most of all Picture Quote #1

Unless a picture shocks, it is nothing Picture Quote #1

Art has absolutely no existence as veracity, as truth Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste Picture Quote #1

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I thought to discourage aesthetics... I threw the bottlerack and the urinal in their faces and now they admire them for their aesthetic beauty Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I believe that the artist doesn’t know what he does. I attach even more importance to the spectator than to the artist Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I was interested in ideas, not in visual products. I wanted to put painting again in the service of the mind Picture Quote #1

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I was highly attracted to chess for forty or forty-five years; then, little by little, my enthusiasm lessened. (Marcel Duchamp Quotes) A game of chess is a visual and plastic thing, and if it isn’t geometric in the static sense of the word, it is mechanical, since it moves. It’s a drawing; it’s a mechanical reality. (Marcel Duchamp Quotes) Art is a habit-forming drug. Art has absolutely no existence as veracity, as truth. People always speak of it with this great, religious reverence, but why should it be so revered? (Marcel Duchamp Quotes) You have to approach something with indifference, as if you had no aesthetic emotion. The choice of readymades is always based on visual indifference and, at the same time, on the total absence of good or bad taste. (Marcel Duchamp Quotes) Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another (Marcel Duchamp Quotes) Chess is a sport. A violent sport (Marcel Duchamp Quotes) I don’t believe in art. I believe in artists (Marcel Duchamp Quotes) I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products (Marcel Duchamp Quotes) Living is more a question of what one spends than what one makes (Marcel Duchamp Quotes) I wanted to kill art for myself… …a new thought for that object (Marcel Duchamp Quotes) Art is not about itself but the attention we bring to it (Marcel Duchamp Quotes) Do unto others as they wish, but with imagination (Marcel Duchamp Quotes) Destruction is also creation (Marcel Duchamp Quotes) The most interesting thing about artists is how they live (Marcel Duchamp Quotes) It’s not what you see that is art. Art is the gap (Marcel Duchamp Quotes) Art has the lovely habit of ruining all artistic theories (Marcel Duchamp Quotes) Three or four drops of height have nothing to do with savageness (Marcel Duchamp Quotes) It is the spectators who make the pictures (Marcel Duchamp Quotes) I consider painting as a means of expression, not as a goal (Marcel Duchamp Quotes) I was poking fun at myself most of all (Marcel Duchamp Quotes) Unless a picture shocks, it is nothing (Marcel Duchamp Quotes) Art has absolutely no existence as veracity, as truth (Marcel Duchamp Quotes) 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 Quotes) I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste (Marcel Duchamp Quotes) I thought to discourage aesthetics... I threw the bottlerack and the urinal in their faces and now they admire them for their aesthetic beauty (Marcel Duchamp Quotes) 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 Quotes) I believe that the artist doesn’t know what he does. I attach even more importance to the spectator than to the artist (Marcel Duchamp Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) I was interested in ideas, not in visual products. I wanted to put painting again in the service of the mind (Marcel Duchamp Quotes)

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