Author: Marcel Duchamp

Quotes

What art is, in reality, is this missing link, not the links which exist. It's not what you see that is art; art is the gap.

What art is, in reality, is this missing link, not the links which exist. It's not what you see that is art; art is the gap.

- Marcel Duchamp

One is a painter because one wants so-called freedom; one doesn't want to go to the office every morning.

One is a painter because one wants so-called freedom; one doesn't want to go to the office every morning.

- 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.

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

It's a product of two poles - there's the pole of the one who makes the work, and the pole of the one who looks at it. I give the latter as much importance as the one who makes it.

It's a product of two poles - there's the pole of the one who makes the work, and the pole of the one who looks at it. I give the latter as much importance as the one who makes it.

- Marcel Duchamp

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

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

- Marcel Duchamp

Art is a habit-forming drug. Art has absolutely no existence as veracity, as truth. People always speak of it with this great, religious reverence, but why should it be so revered?

Art is a habit-forming drug. Art has absolutely no existence as veracity, as truth. People always speak of it with this great, religious reverence, but why should it be so revered?

- Marcel Duchamp

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