Marcel Duchamp

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It is the spectators who make the pictures.
- Marcel Duchamp
Collection: Spectators
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This concern which interests us more than anything else: the blurring of the distinction between art and life.
- Marcel Duchamp
Collection: Art
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Art has absolutely no existence as veracity, as truth.
- Marcel Duchamp
Collection: Art
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I like living, breathing better than working...my art is that of living. Each second, each breath is a work which is inscribed nowhere, which is neither visual nor cerebral, it's a sort of constant euphoria.
- Marcel Duchamp
Collection: Art
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The life of an artist is like the life of a monk, a lewd monk if you like, very Rabelaisian. It is an ordination.
- Marcel Duchamp
Collection: Artist
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I've decided that art is a habit-forming drug. That's all it is, for the artist, for the collector, for anybody connected with it.
- Marcel Duchamp
Collection: Art
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Since a three-dimensional object casts a two-dimensional shadow, we should be able to imagine the unknown four-dimensional object whose shadow we are. I for my part am fascinated by the search for a one-dimensional object that casts no shadow at all.
- Marcel Duchamp
Collection: Two