"You cannot define electricity. The same can be……" — Marcel Duchamp
"You cannot define electricity. The same can be said of art. It is a kind of inner current in a human being, or something which needs no definition."
—
Marcel Duchamp
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
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…
See all 56 quotes by Marcel Duchamp »
More Art Quotes
This quote is filed under Art Quotes,
one of 14,657 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the…
— Pietro Aretino
-
Let each man exercise the art he knows.
— Aristophanes
-
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them…
— Aristotle
-
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
— Aristotle
-
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,…
— Aristotle
-
It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
— Aristotle
-
Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
— Aristotle
-
I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in…
— Billie Joe Armstrong
-
There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex,…
— Karen Armstrong
-
I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new…
— Darren Aronofsky
-
I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your…
— Arthur Ashe
-
Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
— Isaac Asimov
See all 14,657 Art Quotes »