Quote

I feel shame, not for the wrong things I have done, but for the right things that I have failed to do.

Marcel Duchamp

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Marcel Duchamp
Age: 81 †
Born: 1887
Born: July 28
Died: 1968
Died: October 1
Actor
Artist
Chess Player
Designer
Engraver
Film Director
Librarian
Painter
Philosopher
Photographer
Poet
Sculptor
Visual Artist
Henri Robert Marcel Duchamp
Rrose Sélavy
R. Mutt
Rose Sélavy
Marcel Duchamp-Villon
Marsel Dushan
Duxiang
Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp
Marcel Duchamp- Villon
Rrose Selavy
Rose Selavy
Right
Feel
Feels
Things
Failed
Shame
Wrong
Done

More quotes by Marcel Duchamp

Image
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.
Marcel Duchamp
Image
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.
Marcel Duchamp
Image
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.
Marcel Duchamp
Image
As soon as we start putting our thoughts into words and sentences everything gets distorted, language is just no damn good—I use it because I have to, but I don’t put any trust in it. We never understand each other.
Marcel Duchamp
Image
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.
Marcel Duchamp
Image
I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products.
Marcel Duchamp
Image
Among our articles of lazy hardware, I recommend the faucet that stops dripping when no one is listening to it.
Marcel Duchamp
Image
Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another.
Marcel Duchamp
Image
I was interested in ideas, not merely visual products. I wanted to put painting once again at the service of the mind.
Marcel Duchamp
Image
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
Image
I thought to discourage aesthetics... I threw the bottlerack and the urinal in their faces and now they admire them for their aesthetic beauty.
Marcel Duchamp
Image
I consider painting as a means of expression, not as a goal.
Marcel Duchamp
Image
The most interesting thing about artists is how they live
Marcel Duchamp
Image
I believe that a picture, a work of art, lives and dies just as we do.
Marcel Duchamp
Image
The life of an artist is like the life of a monk, a lewd monk if you like, very Rabelaisian. It is an ordination.
Marcel Duchamp
Image
Possible reality [is obtained] by slightly bending physical and chemical laws.
Marcel Duchamp
Image
Chess players are madmen of a certain quality, the way the artist is supposed to be, and isn't, in general.
Marcel Duchamp
Image
It's not what you see that is art. Art is the gap.
Marcel Duchamp
Image
I was poking fun at myself most of all.
Marcel Duchamp
Image
It is the spectators who make the pictures.
Marcel Duchamp