Marcel Duchamp Quotes - click name for biography

·         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.
- Marcel Duchamp

·         Art is an outlet toward regions which are not ruled by time and space.
- Marcel Duchamp

·         No obstinacy, ad absurdum, of hiding the coition through a glass pane with one or many objects of the shop window. The penalty consists in cutting the pane and in feeling regret as soon as possession is consummated.
- Marcel Duchamp

·         I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.
- Marcel Duchamp

·         I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.
- Marcel Duchamp