Man can never expect to start from scratch; he must start from ready-made things, like even his own mother and father. Marcel Duchamp More Quotes by Marcel Duchamp More Quotes From Marcel Duchamp The artist performs only one part of the creative process. The onlooker completes it, and it is the onlooker who has the last word. Marcel Duchamp lasts creative artist Anything is art if an artist says it is. Marcel Duchamp artist ifs art I don't believe in art. I believe in artists. Marcel Duchamp belief believe art It's not what you see that is art. Art is the gap. Marcel Duchamp art-is gaps art Artmaking is making the invisible, visible. Marcel Duchamp visible invisible Humor is the only reason to live. Marcel Duchamp reason-to-live reason 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. Marcel Duchamp damn language use It's the viewer that makes the work. Marcel Duchamp viewers I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste. Marcel Duchamp ontology order art 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. Marcel Duchamp creativity creative art You cannot define electricity. The same can be said of art. It is a kind of inner current in a human being, or something which needs no definition. Marcel Duchamp definitions art needs 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. Marcel Duchamp euphoria breathing art Art has the lovely habit of ruining all artistic theories. Marcel Duchamp lovely habit art 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 chess-game games winning Destruction is also creation. Marcel Duchamp creation destruction I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products. Marcel Duchamp creativity imagination ideas Society takes what it wants. The artist himself does not count, because there is no actual existence for the work of art. The work of art is always based on the two poles of the onlooker and the maker, and the spark that comes from the bipolar action gives birth to something - like electricity. But the onlooker has the last word, and it is always posterity that makes the masterpiece. The artist should not concern himself with this, because it has nothing to do with him. Marcel Duchamp giving two art I feel shame, not for the wrong things I have done, but for the right things that I have failed to do. Marcel Duchamp shame done feels Art is like a shipwreck; it's every man for himself. Marcel Duchamp shipwreck men art 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 Marcel Duchamp objects indifference ideas
