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The life of an artist is like...

The life of an artist is like the life of a monk, a lewd monk if you like, very Rabelaisian. It is an ordination.

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What I have in mind is that a...

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.

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As soon as we start putting o...

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.

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No, the thing to do is try to...

No, the thing to do is try to make a painting that will be alive in your own lifetime.

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The life of a chess master is...

The life of a chess master is much more difficult than that of an artist - much more depressing. An artist knows that someday there'll be recognition and monetary reward, but for the chess master there is little public recognition and absolutely no hope of supporting himself by his endeavors. If Bobby Fischer came to me for advice, I certainly would not discourage him - as if anyone could - but I would try to make it positively clear that he will never have any money from chess, live a monk-like existence and know more rejection than any artist ever has, struggling to be known and accepted.

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Can one make works which are ...

Can one make works which are not works of 'art'?

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To all appearances the artist...

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. If we give the attributes of a medium to the artist, we must then deny him the state of consciousness on the aesthetic plane about what he is doing or why he is doing it. All this decisions in the artistic execution of the work rest with pure intuition and cannot be translated into a self-analysis, spoken or written, or even thought out.

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I was interested in ideas, no...

I was interested in ideas, not merely visual products. I wanted to put painting once again at the service of the mind.

Marcel Duchamp 76 quotes

You cannot define electricity...

You cannot define electricity. The same can be said of art. It is a kind of inner current in a human being, or something which needs no definition.

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Artmaking is making the invis...

Artmaking is making the invisible, visible.

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In the last analysis, the art...

In the last analysis, the artist may shout from all the rooftops that he is a genius; he will have to wait for the verdict of posterity.

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Humor is the only reason to l...

Humor is the only reason to live.

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It's true, of course, humor i...

It's true, of course, humor is very important in my life, as you know. That's the only reason for living, in fact.

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I have drawn people's attenti...

I have drawn people's attention to the fact that art is a mirage. A mirage, just like the oasis that appears in the desert. It is very beautiful, until the moment when you die of thirst, obviously. But we do not die of thirst in the field of art. The mirage has substance.

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This concern which interests ...

This concern which interests us more than anything else: the blurring of the distinction between art and life.

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Art has absolutely no existen...

Art has absolutely no existence as veracity, as truth.

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The word 'art' interests me v...

The word 'art' interests me very much. If it comes from Sanskrit, as I've heard, it signifies 'making.

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My idea was to chose an objec...

My idea was to chose an object that wouldn't attract me, either by its beauty or by its ugliness. To find a point of indifference in my looking at it, you see

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You know exactly what I think...

You know exactly what I think of photography. I would like to see it make people despise painting until something else will make photography unbearable. (In a letter to Alfred Stieglitz)

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I've decided that art is a ha...

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.

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