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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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Henri Robert Marcel Duchamp
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All decisions in the artistic execution of the work rest with pure intuition and cannot be translated into a self-analysis.
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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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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 the artist doesn't know what he does. I attach even more importance to the spectator than to the artist.
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While all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.
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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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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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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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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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It is the spectators who make the pictures.
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I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.
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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 consider painting as a means of expression, not as a goal.
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Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another.
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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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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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I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products.
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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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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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Three or four drops of height have nothing to do with savageness.
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