Top 90 Quotes by Marcel Duchamp

About Marcel Duchamp

These are some quotes by French author Marcel Duchamp Artist, who lived between July 28, 1887 and October 2, 1968.

Marcel, no more painting; go get a job.

Marcel, no more painting; go get a job.

Marcel Duchamp

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

When you make a painting, even abstract, there is always a sort of necessary filling-in.

When you make a painting, even abstract, there is always a sort of necessary filling-in.

Marcel Duchamp

Art is all a matter of personality.

Art is all a matter of personality.

Marcel Duchamp

Gravity is not controlled physically in us by one of the 5 ordinary senses. We always reduce a gravity experience to an autocognizance, real or imagined, registered inside us in the region of the stomach.

Marcel Duchamp

It is a matter of great indifference to me what criticism is printed in the papers and the magazines. I am simply working out my own ideas in my own way.

It is a matter of great indifference to me what criticism is printed in the papers and the magazines. I am simply working out my own ideas in my own way.

Marcel Duchamp

Rational intelligence is dangerous and leads to ratiocination. The painter is a medium who doesn't realize what he is doing. No translation can express the mystery of sensibility, a word, still unreliable, which is nevertheless the basis of painting or poetry, like a kind of alchemy.

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

Distortion came first from the fauves, who, in turn, were under the strong influence of primitive art.

Distortion came first from the fauves, who, in turn, were under the strong influence of primitive art.

Marcel Duchamp

I was highly attracted to chess for forty or forty-five years; then, little by little, my enthusiasm lessened.

I was highly attracted to chess for forty or forty-five years; then, little by little, my enthusiasm lessened.

Marcel Duchamp

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