All Marcel Duchamp Quotes
- I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art - and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much… Aesthetic
- 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… Artist
- 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… All
- 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… Act
- 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… Adjective
- 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… Dimensional
- Art is not about itself but the attention we bring to it. Art
- Do unto others as they wish, but with imagination. Imagination
- Possible reality [is obtained] by slightly bending physical and chemical laws. Bending
- 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… Art
- 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. Acts
- Destruction is also creation. Creation
- 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… Attract
- The most interesting thing about artists is how they live Artist
- I feel shame, not for the wrong things I have done, but for the right things that I have failed to do. Failed
- It's not what you see that is art. Art is the gap. Art