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21 " The most interesting thing about artists is how they live "
― Marcel Duchamp , The Writings of Marcel Duchamp
22 " Not everyone is an artist but everyone is a fucking critic. "
― Marcel Duchamp
23 " Since a three-dimensional object casts a two-dimensional shadow, we should be able to imagine the unknown four-dimensional object whose shadow we are. I for my part am fascinated by the search for a one-dimensional object that casts no shadow at all. "
24 " My idea was to chose an object that wouldn't attract me, either by its beauty or by its ugliness. To find a point of indifference in my looking at it, you see "
25 " I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art - and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position. (On giving up art to play chess) "
26 " Let us consider two important factors, the two poles of the creation of art: the artist on one hand, and on the other the spectator who later becomes the posterity; 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 "
27 " Among our articles of lazy hardware, I recommend the faucet that stops dripping when no one is listening to it. "
28 " While all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists. "
29 " I realized very soon the danger of repeating indiscriminately (forms of) expression... for the spectator even more than for the artist, art is a habit forming drug and I wanted to protect my (art) against such contamination. "
30 " 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. "
31 " there's no solution, because there's no problem "
― Marcel Duchamp , Notas - Marcel Duchamp
32 " Traditionally, artists suffered for their art, now it's the audience. "
33 " You get my idea. Nothing of "artistic" literature about it, just straight medicine, a universal panacea, a fetish in a sense: if you have a toothache go to your dentist and ask him if he is Dada. "
34 " Three or four drops of height have nothing to do with savageness. "
35 " D'ailleurs c'est toujours les autres qui meurent. "
36 " Since a three-dimensional object casts a two-dimensional shadow, we should be able to imagine the unknown four-dimensional object whose shadow we are. "
37 " I don't believe in art. I believe in the artist. "
38 " The American woman is the most intelligent woman in the world today - the only one that always knows what she wants, and therefore always gets it. Hasn't she proved it by making her husband in his role as slave-banker look almost ridiculous in the eyes of the whole world? Not only has she intelligence but a wonderful beauty of line is hers, possessed by no other woman of any race at the present time. "
39 " Everything important that I have done can be put into a little suitcase. "
40 " They're such supreme egos. It's disgusting. I've never seen anything worse than an artist as a mind. It is very low, uninteresting as far as the relationship of men is concerned. "