"I believe that the artist doesn't know what……" — 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."

— Marcel Duchamp

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56 Quotes by Marcel Duchamp

Marcel Duchamp has 56 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The life of an artist is like the life of a monk, a lewd monk if you like, very Rabelaisian.…
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…
As soon as we start putting our thoughts into words and sentences everything gets distorted, language is just no damn…
It's true, of course, humor is very important in my life, as you know. That's the only reason for living,…
To all appearances, the artist acts like a mediumistic being who, from the labyrinth beyond time and space, seeks his…
Since the tubes of paint used by the artist are manufactured and ready made products we must conclude that all…
I don’t care about the word ‘art’ because it has been so discredited. So I want to get rid of…
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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Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor… — Chinua Achebe
Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist. — Wystan Hugh Auden
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of… — Wystan Hugh Auden
A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an… — Norman Ralph Augustine
Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did. — Sebastian Bach
I do struggle with how much and in which way, as an artist or celebrity, that you voice your political… — Kevin Bacon
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. — Francis Bacon
I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money. — Lord Acton
I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody's clock. I… — Erykah Badu
Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint… — Erykah Badu

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