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Marcel Duchamp Quotes: 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
         

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


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



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

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



Anything is art if an artist says it is.

Anything is art if an artist says it is.



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

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



Artmaking is making the invisible, visible.

Artmaking is making the invisible, visible.



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

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



Destruction is also creation.

Destruction is also creation.



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

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



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.

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.



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Living is more a question of what one spends than what one makes.





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