"An abstract painting need in 50 years by……" — Marcel Duchamp
"An abstract painting need in 50 years by no means look "abstract" any longer."
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Marcel Duchamp
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56 Quotes by Marcel Duchamp
Marcel Duchamp has 56 quotes on this site.
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The life of an artist is like the life of a monk, a lewd monk if you like, very Rabelaisian.…
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All decisions in the artistic execution of the work rest with pure intuition and cannot be translated into a self-analysis.
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Art has the lovely habit of ruining all artistic theories.
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Chess is a sport. A violent sport.
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Not all artists are Chess players, but all Chess players are artists
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The Chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the…
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As soon as we start putting our thoughts into words and sentences everything gets distorted, language is just no damn…
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It's true, of course, humor is very important in my life, as you know. That's the only reason for living,…
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To all appearances, the artist acts like a mediumistic being who, from the labyrinth beyond time and space, seeks his…
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Since the tubes of paint used by the artist are manufactured and ready made products we must conclude that all…
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I don’t care about the word ‘art’ because it has been so discredited. So I want to get rid of…
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I've decided that art is a habit-forming drug. That's all it is, for the artist, for the collector, for anybody…
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More Abstract Quotes
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one of 741 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.
— Honore de Balzac
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I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's head, really…
— Jean-Michel Basquiat
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In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.
— Theodor Adorno
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None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.
— Theodor Adorno
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Good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some…
— Nicolas Cage
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Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still…
— Nicolas Cage
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I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery.
— Eric Cantona
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Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
— Al Capp
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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change…
— Saul Alinsky
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'Woman on the Plaza,' with its distinct horizon, snow-like surfaces, wintry wall, stunning sunlight, sharp shadows, and hurrying figure, would…
— Sam Abell
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Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply…
— John Dewey
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It is difficult to talk about fashion in the abstract, without a human body before my eyes, without drawings, without…
— Giorgio Armani
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