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«I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.»
Author: Marcel Duchamp
(Artist)
«I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.»
«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.»
Author: Marcel Duchamp
(Artist)
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«I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products»
«Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another.»
Author: Marcel Duchamp
(Artist)
«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.»
Author: Marcel Duchamp
(Artist)
«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.»
«All in all, the creative act is not performed by the artist alone; 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. This becomes even more obvious when posterity gives its final verdict and sometimes rehabilitates forgotten artists.»
Author: Marcel Duchamp
(Artist)
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