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Marcel Duchamp
Marcel Duchamp
French Artist
Born: Jul 28, 1887
Died: Oct 2, 1968
Art Because Me Own Painting You
Related authors: Camille Pissarro Claude Monet Edgar Degas Edouard Manet Henri Matisse Marc Chagall Paul Cezanne Paul Gauguin
Alchemy is a kind of philosophy: a kind of thinking that leads to a way of understanding. Marcel Duchamp
Understanding Thinking Philosophy Way Kind Leads Alchemy
The word 'art' interests me very much. If it comes from Sanskrit, as I've heard, it signifies 'making.' Now everyone makes something, and those who make things on a canvas with a frame, they're called artists. Formerly, they were called craftsmen, a term I prefer. We're all craftsmen, in civilian or military or artistic life. Marcel Duchamp
Life Art Me Word Military Frame Everyone Those Something Civilian Term Make Makes Making Were Heard Very Artistic Craftsmen Artists Canvas Prefer Much Interests Who Now Things
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
Me Value Others Considered About Instead Pictures Because Judgments Were Been Years Louvre Decided Which Interest Should Doubts Even Twenty Presented
I like living, breathing better than working... Each second, each breath is a work which is inscribed nowhere, which is neither visual nor cerebral. It's a kind of constant euphoria. Marcel Duchamp
Work Better Breath Living Kind Neither Visual Constant Like Nor Than Which Breathing Cerebral Working Euphoria Each Nowhere Second
In the 'Nude Descending a Staircase,' I wanted to create a static image of movement: movement is an abstraction, a deduction articulated within the painting, without our knowing if a real person is or isn't descending an equally real staircase. Marcel Duchamp
Painting Our Static Abstraction Knowing Equally Within Without Real Articulated Person Real Person Movement Wanted Staircase Create Deduction Descending Image
When I put a bicycle wheel on a stool, the fork down, there was no idea of a 'ready-made' or anything else. It was just a distraction. I didn't have any special reason to do it, or any intention of showing it or describing anything. Marcel Duchamp
Bicycle Down Else Distraction No Idea Put Idea Ready-Made Any Wheel Stool Intention Just Fork Anything Anything Else Reason Special Showing Describing
Everything important that I have done can be put into a little suitcase. Marcel Duchamp
Important Suitcase Everything Put Done Little
A game of chess is a visual and plastic thing, and if it isn't geometric in the static sense of the word, it is mechanical, since it moves. It's a drawing; it's a mechanical reality. Marcel Duchamp
Game Reality Word Sense Static Drawing Visual Since Geometric Chess Moves Plastic Mechanical Thing
Distortion came first from the fauves, who, in turn, were under the strong influence of primitive art. Marcel Duchamp
Art Strong First Distortion Primitive Came Were Influence Turn Who
'Art or anti-art?' was the question I asked when I returned from Munich in 1912 and decided to abandon pure painting or painting for its own sake. I thought of introducing elements alien to painting as the only way out of a pictorial and chromatic dead end. Marcel Duchamp
Art Alien Thought Pure Own Painting Way Abandon Out Introducing Only Pictorial Dead Dead End Returned Sake Question End Decided Asked Elements Munich
One is a painter because one wants so-called freedom; one doesn't want to go to the office every morning. Marcel Duchamp
Freedom Morning Every Because Go Office So-Called Want Wants Painter
My stay in Munich was the scene of my complete liberation. Marcel Duchamp
Complete Liberation Stay Scene Munich
Painter after painter, since the beginning of the century, has tended toward abstraction. First, the Impressionists simplified the landscape in terms of color, and then the Fauves simplified it again by adding distortion, which, for some reason, is a characteristic of our century. Marcel Duchamp
First Beginning Adding Our Characteristic Distortion Some Color Simplified Abstraction Toward Since Terms Impressionist After Which Again Century Then Landscape Reason Painter
One must pass through the network of influence. One is obligated to be influenced, and one accepts this influence very naturally. From the start, one doesn't realize this. The first thing to know: one doesn't realize one is influenced. One thinks he is already liberated, and one is far from it! Marcel Duchamp
First Liberated Must Obligated Network Through He Know First Thing Accepts Pass Very The First Thing Influence Influenced Far Realize Naturally Thing Start Thinks
My position is the lack of a position, but, of course, you can't even talk about it; the minute you talk, you spoil the whole game. Marcel Duchamp
You Game Minute About Spoil Talk Course Lack Whole Even Position
Why are all the artists so dead-set on distorting? It seems to be a reaction against photography, but I'm not sure. Marcel Duchamp
Photography Distorting Seems Reaction Sure Artists Against Why
When the vision of the 'Nude' flashed upon me, I knew that it would break forever the enslaving chains of Naturalism. Marcel Duchamp
Me Vision Would Knew Forever Break Naturalism Chains
I was never interested in looking at myself in an aesthetic mirror. My intention was always to get away from myself, though I knew perfectly well that I was using myself. Call it a little game between 'I' and 'me.' Marcel Duchamp
Myself Me Game Mirror Looking Though Never Knew Perfectly Between Well Call Always Aesthetic Get Intention Interested Little Using Away
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