Aesthetic delectation is the danger to be avoided. Marcel Duchamp More Quotes by Marcel Duchamp More Quotes From Marcel Duchamp In the last analysis, the artist may shout from all the rooftops that he is a genius; he will have to wait for the verdict of posterity. Marcel Duchamp analysis artist waiting No, the thing to do is try to make a painting that will be alive in your own lifetime. Marcel Duchamp alive artist trying 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. Marcel Duchamp shadow three two The life of a chess master is much more difficult than that of an artist - much more depressing. An artist knows that someday there'll be recognition and monetary reward, but for the chess master there is little public recognition and absolutely no hope of supporting himself by his endeavors. If Bobby Fischer came to me for advice, I certainly would not discourage him - as if anyone could - but I would try to make it positively clear that he will never have any money from chess, live a monk-like existence and know more rejection than any artist ever has, struggling to be known and accepted. Marcel Duchamp depressing artist struggle In the creative act, the artist goes from intention to realization through a chain of totally subjective reactions. Marcel Duchamp creativity creative artist This concern which interests us more than anything else: the blurring of the distinction between art and life. Marcel Duchamp distinction interest art The curious thing about that moustache and goatee is that when you look at the Mona Lisa it becomes a man. It is not a woman disguised as a man; it is a real man, and that was my discovery, without realising it at the time. Marcel Duchamp real discovery men The most interesting thing about artists is how they live Marcel Duchamp most-interesting artist interesting I consider painting as a means of expression, not as a goal. Marcel Duchamp goal expression mean 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. Marcel Duchamp unique artist men I think there is a great deal to the idea of not doing a thing, but that when you do a thing, you don't do it in five minutes or in five hours, but in five years. Marcel Duchamp years ideas thinking My art would be that of living: each moment, each breath is a work inscribed nowhere. Marcel Duchamp moments would-be art Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another. Marcel Duchamp swag pieces movement I was poking fun at myself most of all. Marcel Duchamp poking-fun artist fun Chess is a sport. A violent sport. Marcel Duchamp violent chess sports It is the spectators who make the pictures. Marcel Duchamp spectators Since I found that one could make a case shadow from a three-dimensional thing, any object whatsoever - just as the projecting of the sun on the earth makes two dimensions - I thought that by simple intellectual analogy, the fourth dimension could project an object of three dimensions, or, to put it another way, any three-dimensional object, which we see dispassionately, is a projection of something four-dimensional, something we are not familiar with. Marcel Duchamp intellectual simple two Possible reality [is obtained] by slightly bending physical and chemical laws. Marcel Duchamp bending law reality The Chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chessboard, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem Marcel Duchamp chess-pieces block beauty Can one make works which are not works of 'art'? Marcel Duchamp works-of-art art
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