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List of Marcel Duchamp Quotes

Explore our hand-picked selection of 75 inspiring quotes by Marcel Duchamp.

About Marcel Duchamp

  • Born: July 28, 1887
  • Died: October 2, 1968
  • Occupation: Painter
    • In new york in 1915 i bought at a hardware store a snow shovel on which i wrote in advance of the broken arm .
    New York Snow Broken
    Three or four drops of height have nothing to do with savageness.
    Three Four Height
    Among our articles of lazy hardware, i recommend the faucet that stops dripping when no one is listening to it.
    Lazy Listening Dripping
    I wanted to kill art for myself.. ..a new thought for that object.
    Art Wanted Impressionism
    Chess players are madmen of a certain quality, the way the artist is supposed to be, and isn't, in general.
    Artist Player Quality
    I'm not at all sure that the concept of the readymade isn't the most important single idea to come out of my work.
    Ideas Important Concepts
    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.
    Simple Two Intellectual
    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.
    Artist Space Labyrinth
    An abstract painting need in 50 years by no means look "abstract" any longer.
    Art Mean Years
    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.
    Depressing Struggle Artist
    You know exactly what i think of photography. i would like to see it make people despise painting until something else will make photography unbearable. (in a letter to alfred stieglitz)
    Photography Thinking People
    Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another.
    Swag Pieces Movement
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