An abstract painting need in 50 years by no means look "abstract" any longer.
Marcel DuchampRead
It's a product of two poles - there's the pole of the one who makes the work, and the pole of the one who looks at it. I give the latter as much importance as the one who makes it.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The value of art comes from both the creator and the observer's perspective.
Marcel Duchamp emphasizes the duality in the art experience, highlighting that both the artist who creates the work and the viewer who interprets it play equally crucial roles in defining the art's significance. This perspective challenges traditional views that often place more importance on the creator alone, advocating for the active engagement of the audience in the artistic process.
Themes
ArtObserverCreatorInterpretationImportance
In practice
Example use cases
In a speech about the value of creativity, you might use this quote to highlight the role of the audience in appreciating art.
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All quotes →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 DuchampRead
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 DuchampRead
I never finished the 'Large Glass' because, after working on it for eight years, I probably got interested in something else; also, I was tired. It may be that, subconsciously, I never intended to finish it because the word 'finish' implies an acceptance of traditional methods and all the paraphernalia that accompany them.
Marcel DuchampRead
I became a librarian at the Sainte-Genevieve Library in Paris. I made this gesture to rid myself of a certain milieu, a certain attitude, to have a clean conscience, but also to make a living. I was twenty-five. I had been told that one must make a living, and I believed it.
Marcel DuchampRead
Humor and laughter - not necessarily derogatory derision - are my pet tools. This may come from my general philosophy of never taking the world too seriously - for fear of dying of boredom.
Marcel DuchampRead
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