Not all artists are Chess players, but all Chess players are artists — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
Chess players are madmen of a certain quality, the way the artist is supposed to be, and isn't, in general. — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
I was highly attracted to chess for forty or forty-five years; then, little by little, my enthusiasm lessened. — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another. — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
While all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists. — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
A game of chess is a visual and plastic thing, and if it isn't geometric in the static sense of the word,… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
“I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art - and much more. It cannot be commercialized.… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
In chess, there are some extremely beautiful things in the domain of movement, but not in the visual domain. It's the imagining… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art - and much more. It cannot be commercialized.… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
The Chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chessboard, express… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
All this twaddle, the existence of God, atheism, determinism, liberation, societies, death, etc., are pieces of a chess game called language, and… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
The life of a chess master is much more difficult than that of an artist - much more depressing. An artist knows… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
One is a painter because one wants so-called freedom; one doesn't want to go to the office every morning. — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share
Society takes what it wants. The artist himself does not count, because there is no actual existence for the work of art. The work… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share
The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share
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 Copy Share
Rational intelligence is dangerous and leads to ratiocination. The painter is a medium who doesn't realize what he is doing. No translation can express… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share
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… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share
The basis for my own work during the years just before coming to America in 1915 was a desire to break up forms -… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share
The curious thing about that moustache and goatee is that when you look at the Mona Lisa it becomes a man. It is not… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share
I am afraid to end up being in need to sell canvases - in other words, to be a society painter. — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share
To all appearances the artist acts like a mediumistic being who, from the labyrinth beyond time and space, seeks his way out to a… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share
Words such as truth, art, veracity, or anything are stupid in themselves. — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share
