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I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.
Marcel Duchamp
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Marcel Duchamp
Age: 81 †
Born: 1887
Born: July 28
Died: 1968
Died: October 1
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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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The life of an artist is like the life of a monk, a lewd monk if you like, very Rabelaisian. It is an ordination.
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It's not what you see that is art. Art is the gap.
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I feel shame, not for the wrong things I have done, but for the right things that I have failed to do.
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I believe that a picture, a work of art, lives and dies just as we do.
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If a shadow is a two-dimensional projection of the three-dimensional world, then the three-dimensional world as we know it is the projection of the four-dimensional Universe.
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Three or four drops of height have nothing to do with savageness.
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Among our articles of lazy hardware, I recommend the faucet that stops dripping when no one is listening to it.
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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 connected with it.
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Possible reality [is obtained] by slightly bending physical and chemical laws.
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The individual, man as a man, man as a brain, if you like, interests me more than what he makes, because I've noticed that most artists only repeat themselves.
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It's the viewer that makes the work.
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I'm not at all sure that the concept of the readymade isn't the most important single idea to come out of my work.
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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
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In the last analysis, the artist may shout from all the rooftops that he is a genius he will have to wait for the verdict of posterity.
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Chess players are madmen of a certain quality, the way the artist is supposed to be, and isn't, in general.
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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.
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While all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.
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There is no solution, for there is no problem.
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What I have in mind is that art may be bad, good or indifferent, but, whatever adjective is used, we must call it art, and bad art is still art in the same way that a bad emotion is still an emotion.
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