"Since the tubes of paint used by the……" — Marcel Duchamp
"Since the tubes of paint used by the artist are manufactured and ready made products we must conclude that all the paintings in the world are 'readymades aided' and also works of assemblage."
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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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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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Three or four drops of height have nothing to do with savageness.
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Nothing could have been worse for the development of my mind than Dr. Butler's school, as it was strictly classical,…
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Can you think of any problem, in any area of human endeavour, on any scale, from microscopic to global, whose…
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No compact among men . . . can be pronounced everlasting and inviolable, and if I may so express myself,…
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The most evident difference springs from the important part which is played in man by a relatively strong power of…
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A homely face and no figure have aided many women heavenward.
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Those other lands were Christian, and they boiled with bigotry. The rulers themselves were more or less tolerant, for they…
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I often had to run very quickly to be on time, and from being a fleet runner was generally successful;…
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The Roseicrucians were everywhere, aided by the fact that they didn't exist.
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The composer does not sit around and wait for an inspiration to walk up and introduce itself…Making music is actually…
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I do feel I was overshadowed by some of those guys (who took steroids) . . . I had a…
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For as the aged, or those whose sight is defective, when any book, however fair, is set before them, though…
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