Marcel Duchamp Quotes

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

Order, Avoid, Taste

I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products.
Marcel Duchamp

Ideas, Interested, Visual

Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another.
Marcel Duchamp

Another, Movement, Eating

Living is more a question of what one spends than what one makes.
Marcel Duchamp

Living, Makes, Question

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

Brain, Makes, Themselves

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

Beauty, Art, Cannot

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Artist

Born: July 28, 1887

Died: October 2, 1968

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