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title: "2 Discouraging Quotes By Marcel Duchamp"
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> [The life of a chess master is much more difficult than that of an artist - much more depressing. An artist knows that someday there'll be recognition and monetary reward, but for the chess master there is little public recognition…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcel-duchamp/the-life-of-a-chess-master-is-much-more-difficult-than-that-of-an/)

[Marcel Duchamp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcel-duchamp/)

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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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcel-duchamp/i-thought-to-discourage-aesthetics-i-threw-the-bottlerack-and-the/)

[Marcel Duchamp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcel-duchamp/)

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## Other authors on Discouraging

## More by Marcel Duchamp

> [One is a painter because one wants so-called freedom; one doesn't want to go to the office every morning.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcel-duchamp/one-is-a-painter-because-one-wants-so-called-freedom-one-doesn-t-want/)

[Marcel Duchamp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcel-duchamp/)

> [Humor is the only reason to live.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcel-duchamp/humor-is-the-only-reason-to-live/)

[Marcel Duchamp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcel-duchamp/)

> [Society takes what it wants. The artist himself does not count, because there is no actual existence for the work of art. The work…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcel-duchamp/society-takes-what-it-wants-the-artist-himself-does-not-count-because/)

[Marcel Duchamp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcel-duchamp/)

> [The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcel-duchamp/the-creative-act-is-not-performed-by-the-artist-alone-the-spectator/)

[Marcel Duchamp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcel-duchamp/)

> [I believe that the artist doesn't know what he does. I attach even more importance to the spectator than to the artist.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcel-duchamp/i-believe-that-the-artist-doesn-t-know-what-he-does-i-attach-even/)

[Marcel Duchamp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcel-duchamp/)

> [Living is more a question of what one spends than what one makes.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcel-duchamp/living-is-more-a-question-of-what-one-spends-than-what-one-makes/)

[Marcel Duchamp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcel-duchamp/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcel-duchamp/rational-intelligence-is-dangerous-and-leads-to-ratiocination-the/)

[Marcel Duchamp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcel-duchamp/)

> [Everything important that I have done can be put into a little suitcase.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcel-duchamp/everything-important-that-i-have-done-can-be-put-into-a-little/)

[Marcel Duchamp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcel-duchamp/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcel-duchamp/as-soon-as-we-start-putting-our-thoughts-into-words-and-sentences/)

[Marcel Duchamp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcel-duchamp/)

> [The basis for my own work during the years just before coming to America in 1915 was a desire to break up forms -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcel-duchamp/the-basis-for-my-own-work-during-the-years-just-before-coming-to/)

[Marcel Duchamp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcel-duchamp/)

> [The curious thing about that moustache and goatee is that when you look at the Mona Lisa it becomes a man. It is not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcel-duchamp/the-curious-thing-about-that-moustache-and-goatee-is-that-when-you/)

[Marcel Duchamp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcel-duchamp/)

> [I am afraid to end up being in need to sell canvases - in other words, to be a society painter.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcel-duchamp/i-am-afraid-to-end-up-being-in-need-to-sell-canvases-in-other-words/)

[Marcel Duchamp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcel-duchamp/)

> [In the midst of each epoch, I fully realize that a new epoch will dawn.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcel-duchamp/in-the-midst-of-each-epoch-i-fully-realize-that-a-new-epoch-will-dawn/)

[Marcel Duchamp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcel-duchamp/)

> [To all appearances the artist acts like a mediumistic being who, from the labyrinth beyond time and space, seeks his way out to a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcel-duchamp/to-all-appearances-the-artist-acts-like-a-mediumistic-being-who-from/)

[Marcel Duchamp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcel-duchamp/)

> [Words such as truth, art, veracity, or anything are stupid in themselves.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcel-duchamp/words-such-as-truth-art-veracity-or-anything-are-stupid-in-themselves/)

[Marcel Duchamp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcel-duchamp/)

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