Quotes by Marcel Duchamp

Marcel Duchamp

French painter and sculptor

Lived from: 1887 - 1968

Category: Artists Country: France

Born: 28 july 1887 Died: 2 october 1968

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

  ― Marcel Duchamp
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• 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.

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• 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.

  ― Marcel Duchamp
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Subjects in these quotes:

• commercialized
• chess-board
• conforming
• abstractly
• conclusion
• individual

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