Delectation Quotes by Marcel Duchamp

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• The life of an artist is like the life of a monk, a lewd monk if you like, very Rabelaisian. It is…
• All decisions in the artistic execution of the work rest with pure intuition and cannot be translated into a self-analysis.
• Art has the lovely habit of ruining all artistic theories.
• Chess is a sport. A violent sport.
• Not all artists are Chess players, but all Chess players are artists
• The Chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chessboard, express…
• As soon as we start putting our thoughts into words and sentences everything gets distorted, language is just no damn good—I use…
• It's true, of course, humor is very important in my life, as you know. That's the only reason for living, in fact.
• To all appearances, the artist acts like a mediumistic being who, from the labyrinth beyond time and space, seeks his way out…
• Since the tubes of paint used by the artist are manufactured and ready made products we must conclude that all the paintings…
• I don’t care about the word ‘art’ because it has been so discredited. So I want to get rid of it. There…
• 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…

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