A painting that doesn't shock isn't worth painting. Marcel Duchamp More Quotes by Marcel Duchamp More Quotes From Marcel Duchamp I believe that the artist doesn't know what he does. I attach even more importance to the spectator than to the artist. Marcel Duchamp artistdoebelieve 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. Marcel Duchamp shadowthreetwo Living is more a question of what one spends than what one makes. Marcel Duchamp The life of an artist is like the life of a monk, a lewd monk if you like, very Rabelaisian. It is an ordination. Marcel Duchamp serenitymonkartist 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. Marcel Duchamp adjectivesmindart Unless a picture shocks, it is nothing. Marcel Duchamp shock I believe that a picture, a work of art, lives and dies just as we do. Marcel Duchamp diesbelieveart Art is not about itself but the attention we bring to it. Marcel Duchamp art-isattentionart Aesthetic delectation is the danger to be avoided. Marcel Duchamp aestheticavoideddanger 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. Marcel Duchamp habitdrugart 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. If we give the attributes of a medium to the artist, we must then deny him the state of consciousness on the aesthetic plane about what he is doing or why he is doing it. All this decisions in the artistic execution of the work rest with pure intuition and cannot be translated into a self-analysis, spoken or written, or even thought out. Marcel Duchamp spaceartistself It's true, of course, humor is very important in my life, as you know. That's the only reason for living, in fact. Marcel Duchamp importantreasonfacts I don’t care about the word ‘art’ because it has been so discredited. So I want to get rid of it. There is an unnecessary adoration of ‘art’ today. Marcel Duchamp carewantart I have drawn people's attention to the fact that art is a mirage. A mirage, just like the oasis that appears in the desert. It is very beautiful, until the moment when you die of thirst, obviously. But we do not die of thirst in the field of art. The mirage has substance. Marcel Duchamp oasisbeautifulart I thought to discourage aesthetics... I threw the bottlerack and the urinal in their faces and now they admire them for their aesthetic beauty. Marcel Duchamp admirefacesbeauty While all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists. Marcel Duchamp artistplayerchess Art has absolutely no existence as veracity, as truth. Marcel Duchamp veracityexistenceart The only thing that is not art is inattention Marcel Duchamp inattentionart-isart Do unto others as they wish, but with imagination. Marcel Duchamp do-unto-othersimaginationwish 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. Marcel Duchamp paintingartistworld
