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Marcel Duchamp: Appearance Stripped Bare QUOTES

1 " Reversibility: seeing through opaqueness, not-seeing through transparency. The wooden door and the glass door: two opposite facets of the same idea. This opposition is resolved in an identity: in both cases we look at ourselves looking. Hinge procedure. The question “What do we see?” confronts us with ourselves. "

― Octavio Paz , Marcel Duchamp: Appearance Stripped Bare

2 " is not really a system of painting but a method of internal investigation. It is not the philosophy of painting but painting as philosophy. "

― Octavio Paz , Marcel Duchamp: Appearance Stripped Bare