I haven't been in the Louvre for twenty years. It doesn't interest me because I have these doubts about the value of the judgments which decided that all these pictures should be presented to the Louvre instead of others which weren't even considered.

Marcel Duchamp

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The artist performs only one part of the creative process. The onlooker completes it, and it is the onlooker who has the last word.

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Anything is art if an artist says it is. by Marcel Duchamp

Anything is art if an artist says it is.

artist ifs art

I don't believe in art. I believe in artists. by Marcel Duchamp

I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.

belief believe art

It's not what you see that is art. Art is the gap. by Marcel Duchamp

It's not what you see that is art. Art is the gap.

art-is gaps art

Artmaking is making the invisible, visible. by Marcel Duchamp

Artmaking is making the invisible, visible.

visible invisible

Humor is the only reason to live. by Marcel Duchamp

Humor is the only reason to live.

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.

damn language use

It's the viewer that makes the work. by Marcel Duchamp

It's the viewer that makes the work.

viewers

I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid confo... by Marcel Duchamp

I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.

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.

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.

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.

euphoria breathing art

Art has the lovely habit of ruining all artistic theories. by Marcel Duchamp

Art has the lovely habit of ruining all artistic theories.

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.

chess-game games winning

Destruction is also creation. by Marcel Duchamp

Destruction is also creation.

creation destruction

I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products. by Marcel Duchamp

I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products.

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.

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.

shame done feels

Art is like a shipwreck; it's every man for himself. by Marcel Duchamp

Art is like a shipwreck; it's every man for himself.

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

objects indifference ideas