"I was interested in ideas, not in visual……" — Marcel Duchamp

"I was interested in ideas, not in visual products. I wanted to put painting again in the service of the mind."

— 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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More Ideas Quotes

This quote is filed under Ideas Quotes, one of 13,167 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately… — J. J. Abrams
There is no great genius without a mixture of madness. — Aristotle
I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a personality. — J. J. Abrams
It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
Never in my wildest dreams did I entertain the idea that I would become a fashion designer. — Giorgio Armani
I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and… — Paul Auster
In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea. — Richard Bach
We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about… — Karen Armstrong
It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no… — Lance Armstrong
There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium… — Antonin Artaud
A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one. — Mary Kay Ash
But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed… — Chinua Achebe

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