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It is the spectators who make the pictures.
Marcel Duchamp
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Marcel Duchamp
Age: 81 †
Born: 1887
Born: July 28
Died: 1968
Died: October 1
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Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another.
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In my day artists wanted to be outcasts, pariahs. Now they are all integrated into society
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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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To all appearances, the artist acts like a mediumistic being who, from the labyrinth beyond time and space, seeks his way out to a clearing.
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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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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.
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Possible reality [is obtained] by slightly bending physical and chemical laws.
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I like living, breathing better than working...my art is that of living. Each second, each breath is a work which is inscribed nowhere, which is neither visual nor cerebral, it's a sort of constant euphoria.
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