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Marcel Duchamp Quotes

Artmaking is making the invisible, visible Picture Quote #1

Marcel, no more painting; go get a job Picture Quote #1

Anything is art if an artist says it is Picture Quote #1

Art is like a shipwreck; it’s every man for himself Picture Quote #1

I don’t believe in art. I believe in artists Picture Quote #1

This concern which interests us more than anything else: the blurring of the distinction between art and life Picture Quote #1

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Art or anti-art?’ was the question I asked when I returned from Munich in 1912 and decided to abandon pure painting or painting for its own sake. I thought of introducing elements alien to painting as the only way out of a pictorial and chromatic dead end Picture Quote #1

I believe that a picture, a work of art, lives and dies just as we do Picture Quote #1

I couldn’t go into the haphazard drawing or the paintings, the splashing of paint. I wanted to go back to a completely dry drawing, a dry conception of art Picture Quote #1

The word ‘art’ interests me very much. If it comes from Sanskrit, as I’ve heard, it signifies ‘making.’ Now everyone makes something, and those who make things on a canvas with a frame, they’re called artists. Formerly, they were called craftsmen, a term I prefer. We’re all craftsmen, in civilian or military or artistic life Picture Quote #1

I am against the word ‘anti’ because it’s a little bit like ‘atheist,’ as compared to ‘believer.’ And an atheist is just as much of a religious man as the believer is Picture Quote #1

In the beginning, the cubists broke up form without even knowing they were doing it. Probably the compulsion to show multiple sides of an object forced us to break the object up - or, even better, to project a panorama that unfolded different facets of the same object Picture Quote #1

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Painter after painter, since the beginning of the century, has tended toward abstraction. First, the Impressionists simplified the landscape in terms of color, and then the Fauves simplified it again by adding distortion, which, for some reason, is a characteristic of our century Picture Quote #1

All this twaddle, the existence of God, atheism, determinism, liberation, societies, death, etc., are pieces of a chess game called language, and they are amusing only if one does not preoccupy oneself with ‘winning or losing this game of chess Picture Quote #1

The Chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chessboard, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem Picture Quote #1

My art would be that of living: each moment, each breath is a work inscribed nowhere Picture Quote #1

In the creative act, the artist goes from intention to realization through a chain of totally subjective reactions Picture Quote #1

The only thing that is not art is inattention Picture Quote #1

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I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art - and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position Picture Quote #1

If your choice enters into it, then taste is involved - bad taste, good taste, uninteresting taste. Taste is the enemy of art, A-R-T Picture Quote #1

In the creative act, the artist goes from intention to realization through a chain of totally subjective reactions Picture Quote #1

I became a librarian at the Sainte-Genevieve Library in Paris. I made this gesture to rid myself of a certain milieu, a certain attitude, to have a clean conscience, but also to make a living. I was twenty-five. I had been told that one must make a living, and I believed it Picture Quote #1

My position is the lack of a position, but, of course, you can’t even talk about it; the minute you talk, you spoil the whole game Picture Quote #1

Rational intelligence is dangerous and leads to ratiocination. The painter is a medium who doesn’t realize what he is doing. No translation can express the mystery of sensibility, a word, still unreliable, which is nevertheless the basis of painting or poetry, like a kind of alchemy Picture Quote #1

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The ‘Glass’ is not my autobiography, nor is it self-expression. Far from it Picture Quote #1

One must pass through the network of influence. One is obligated to be influenced, and one accepts this influence very naturally. From the start, one doesn’t realize this. The first thing to know: one doesn’t realize one is influenced. One thinks he is already liberated, and one is far from it! Picture Quote #1

Man can never expect to start from scratch; he must start from ready-made things, like even his own mother and father Picture Quote #1

Humor and laughter - not necessarily derogatory derision - are my pet tools. This may come from my general philosophy of never taking the world too seriously - for fear of dying of boredom Picture Quote #1

I realized very soon the danger of repeating indiscriminately (forms of) expression... for the spectator even more than for the artist, art is a habit forming drug and I wanted to protect my (art) against such contamination Picture Quote #1

It is curious to note how fragile the memory is, even for the important times in one’s life. This is, moreover, what explains the fortunate fantasy of history Picture Quote #1

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Artmaking is making the invisible, visible (Marcel Duchamp Quotes) Marcel, no more painting; go get a job (Marcel Duchamp Quotes) Anything is art if an artist says it is (Marcel Duchamp Quotes) Art is like a shipwreck; it’s every man for himself (Marcel Duchamp Quotes) I don’t believe in art. I believe in artists. (Marcel Duchamp Quotes) This concern which interests us more than anything else: the blurring of the distinction between art and life. (Marcel Duchamp Quotes) Art or anti-art?’ was the question I asked when I returned from Munich in 1912 and decided to abandon pure painting or painting for its own sake. I thought of introducing elements alien to painting as the only way out of a pictorial and chromatic dead end. (Marcel Duchamp Quotes) I believe that a picture, a work of art, lives and dies just as we do... (Marcel Duchamp Quotes) I couldn’t go into the haphazard drawing or the paintings, the splashing of paint. I wanted to go back to a completely dry drawing, a dry conception of art. (Marcel Duchamp Quotes) The word ‘art’ interests me very much. If it comes from Sanskrit, as I’ve heard, it signifies ‘making.’ Now everyone makes something, and those who make things on a canvas with a frame, they’re called artists. Formerly, they were called craftsmen, a term I prefer. We’re all craftsmen, in civilian or military or artistic life. (Marcel Duchamp Quotes) I am against the word ‘anti’ because it’s a little bit like ‘atheist,’ as compared to ‘believer.’ And an atheist is just as much of a religious man as the believer is. (Marcel Duchamp Quotes) In the beginning, the cubists broke up form without even knowing they were doing it. Probably the compulsion to show multiple sides of an object forced us to break the object up - or, even better, to project a panorama that unfolded different facets of the same object. (Marcel Duchamp Quotes) Painter after painter, since the beginning of the century, has tended toward abstraction. First, the Impressionists simplified the landscape in terms of color, and then the Fauves simplified it again by adding distortion, which, for some reason, is a characteristic of our century. (Marcel Duchamp Quotes) All this twaddle, the existence of God, atheism, determinism, liberation, societies, death, etc., are pieces of a chess game called language, and they are amusing only if one does not preoccupy oneself with ‘winning or losing this game of chess (Marcel Duchamp Quotes) The Chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chessboard, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem (Marcel Duchamp Quotes) My art would be that of living: each moment, each breath is a work inscribed nowhere (Marcel Duchamp Quotes) In the creative act, the artist goes from intention to realization through a chain of totally subjective reactions (Marcel Duchamp Quotes) The only thing that is not art is inattention (Marcel Duchamp Quotes) I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art - and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position (Marcel Duchamp Quotes) If your choice enters into it, then taste is involved - bad taste, good taste, uninteresting taste. Taste is the enemy of art, A-R-T. (Marcel Duchamp Quotes) In the creative act, the artist goes from intention to realization through a chain of totally subjective reactions. (Marcel Duchamp Quotes) I became a librarian at the Sainte-Genevieve Library in Paris. I made this gesture to rid myself of a certain milieu, a certain attitude, to have a clean conscience, but also to make a living. I was twenty-five. I had been told that one must make a living, and I believed it. (Marcel Duchamp Quotes) My position is the lack of a position, but, of course, you can’t even talk about it; the minute you talk, you spoil the whole game. (Marcel Duchamp Quotes) Rational intelligence is dangerous and leads to ratiocination. The painter is a medium who doesn’t realize what he is doing. No translation can express the mystery of sensibility, a word, still unreliable, which is nevertheless the basis of painting or poetry, like a kind of alchemy. (Marcel Duchamp Quotes) The ‘Glass’ is not my autobiography, nor is it self-expression. Far from it. (Marcel Duchamp Quotes) One must pass through the network of influence. One is obligated to be influenced, and one accepts this influence very naturally. From the start, one doesn’t realize this. The first thing to know: one doesn’t realize one is influenced. One thinks he is already liberated, and one is far from it! (Marcel Duchamp Quotes) Man can never expect to start from scratch; he must start from ready-made things, like even his own mother and father. (Marcel Duchamp Quotes) Humor and laughter - not necessarily derogatory derision - are my pet tools. This may come from my general philosophy of never taking the world too seriously - for fear of dying of boredom. (Marcel Duchamp Quotes) I realized very soon the danger of repeating indiscriminately (forms of) expression... for the spectator even more than for the artist, art is a habit forming drug and I wanted to protect my (art) against such contamination. (Marcel Duchamp Quotes) It is curious to note how fragile the memory is, even for the important times in one’s life. This is, moreover, what explains the fortunate fantasy of history. (Marcel Duchamp Quotes)

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