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Marcel Duchamp

Geburtstag: 28. Juli 1887
Todesdatum: 2. Oktober 1968

Marcel Duchamp , eigentlich Henri Robert Marcel Duchamp, war ein französisch-amerikanischer Maler und Objektkünstler. Er ist Mitbegründer der Konzeptkunst und zählt zu den Wegbereitern des Dadaismus und Surrealismus. Nach ihm ist der Prix Marcel Duchamp benannt.

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„There is no solution because there is no problem.“

— Marcel Duchamp

„I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own tastes.“

— Marcel Duchamp
Quote by Harriet & Sidney Janis in 'Marchel Duchamp: Anti-Artist' in View magazine 3/21/45; reprinted in Robert Motherwell, Dada Painters and Poets (1951)

„Destruction is also creation.“

— Marcel Duchamp

„I force myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.“

— Marcel Duchamp

„All this twaddle, the existence of God, atheism, determinism, liberation, societies, death, etc., are pieces of a chess game called language, and they are amusing only if one does not preoccupy oneself with 'winning or losing this game of chess.“

— Marcel Duchamp

„As soon as we start putting our thoughts into words and sentences everything gets distorted, language is just no damn good—I use it because I have to, but I don’t put any trust in it. We never understand each other.“

— Marcel Duchamp

„I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.“

— Marcel Duchamp

„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
Context: The spectator experiences the phenomenon of transmutation; through the change from inert matter into a work of art, an actual transubstantiation has taken place... All in all, the creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work into contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act. Quote from The Writings of Marcel Duchamp (Marchand du Sel) e.d. Michel Sanouille and Elmer Peterson, New York 1973, pp. 139-140

„Art is either plagiarism or revolution.“

— Marcel Duchamp

„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

„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

„To all appearances, the artist acts like a mediumistic being who, from the labyrinth beyond time and space, seeks his way out to a clearing.“

— Marcel Duchamp
Context: Let us consider two important factors, the two poles of the creation of art: the artist on one hand, and on the other the spectator who later becomes the posterity; to all appearances the artist acts like a mediumistic being who, from the labyrinth beyond time and space, seeks his way out to a clearing.

„I feel shame, not for the wrong things I have done, but for the right things that I have failed to do.“

— Marcel Duchamp

„Do unto others as they wish, but with imagination.“

— Marcel Duchamp

„What I have in mind is that art may be bad, good or indifferent, but, whatever adjective is used, we must call it art, and bad art is still art in the same way that a bad emotion is still an emotion.“

— Marcel Duchamp
Context: I want to clarify our understanding of the word 'art' – to be sure, without an attempt to a definition. What I have in mind is that art may be bad, good or indifferent, but, whatever adjective is used, we must call it art, and bad art is still art in the same way as a bad emotion is still an emotion. Therefore, when I refer to 'art coefficient', it will be understood that I refer not only to great art, but I am trying to describe the subjective mechanism which produces art in a raw state – 'à l'état brute' – bad, good or indifferent.