Home > Author > Marcel Duchamp
1 " 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. "
― Marcel Duchamp
2 " 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. "
3 " I force myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste. "
4 " I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste. "
5 " Art is not about itself but the attention we bring to it. "
6 " 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. "
7 " Possible reality [is obtained] by slightly bending physical and chemical laws. "
8 " All in all, the creative act is not performed by the artist alone.. the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act. "
9 " 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. "
10 " Art is either plagiarism or revolution. "
11 " I don't believe in art. I believe in artists. "
12 " Do unto others as they wish, but with imagination. "
13 " The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act. "
14 " André Breton was a lover of love in a world who believes in prostitution. "
15 " Destruction is also creation. "
16 " 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. "
17 " I feel shame, not for the wrong things I have done, but for the right things that I have failed to do. "
18 " 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. "
19 " 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. "
20 " There is no solution because there is no problem. "
