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It's the viewer that makes the work.
Marcel Duchamp
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Marcel Duchamp
Age: 81 †
Born: 1887
Born: July 28
Died: 1968
Died: October 1
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An abstract painting need in 50 years by no means look abstract any longer.
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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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I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.
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Art has the lovely habit of ruining all artistic theories.
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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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In my day artists wanted to be outcasts, pariahs. Now they are all integrated into society
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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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My art would be that of living: each moment, each breath is a work inscribed nowhere.
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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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Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another.
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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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I believe that a picture, a work of art, lives and dies just as we do.
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I was poking fun at myself most of all.
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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 consider painting as a means of expression, not as a goal.
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Three or four drops of height have nothing to do with savageness.
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