Marcel Duchamp
1887- 1968
Avant-garde French Dadaist Artist
Artistically Influenced by the Following Painters and Art Movements: Symbolism, Post-Impressionism, Fauvism, Cubism, Surrealism, Cézanne, Fernand Léger, Juan Gris and Odilon Redon
Education - Académie Julian, Paris, France
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Marcel Duchamp Quotes
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
God is Man's stupidest idea.
--Marcel Duchamp
I have forced myself to
contradict myself in order
to avoid conforming to my
own taste. -- Marcel Duchamp
I am still a victim of
chess. It has all the beauty
of art -- and much more. It
cannot be commercialized.
Chess is much purer than art
in its social position. ---
Marcel Duchamp
You see, I don't want to be
pinned down to any position.
My position is the lack of a
position.-- Marcel Duchamp
I don't believe in art. I
believe in artists. Marcel
Duchamp
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
Art is a habit-forming drug.
That's all it is for the
artist, for the collector,
for anybody connected with
it. -- Marcel Duchamp
Unless a picture shocks, it
is nothing. -- Marcel
Duchamp
The chess pieces are the
block alphabet which shapes
thoughts; and these
thoughts, although making a
visual design on the
chess-board, express their
beauty abstractly, like a
poem... I have come to the
personal conclusion that
while all artists are not
chess players, all chess
players are artists. --
Marcel Duchamp
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