An abstract painting need in 50 years by no means look "abstract" any longer.
Marcel DuchampRead
There is something like an explosion in the meaning of certain words: they have a greater value than their meaning in the dictionary.
Interpretation
Words can hold deeper significance beyond their dictionary definitions.
Marcel Duchamp suggests that the significance of certain words extends beyond their literal definitions found in the dictionary, indicating that their meanings can evolve and explode into broader interpretations based on context, culture, and personal experience. This highlights the complex relationship between language and meaning in art and human expression.
In practice
In a discussion about modern art, one might use this quote to emphasize the power of artistic expression.
An abstract painting need in 50 years by no means look "abstract" any longer.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A person who's only suffering can't write a poem. There are choices to be made, and you need to be objective.
Painting something that defies the law of the land is good. Painting something that defies the law of the land and the law of gravity at the same time is ideal.
She adored all beautiful things in their every curve and fragrance, so that they became part of her. Day by day, she gathered beauty; had she had no heart (she who was the bosom of womanhood) her thoughts would still have been as lilies, because the good is the beautiful.
Some people become cops because they want to make the world a better place. Some people become vandals because they want to make the world a better looking place.
It wasn't stone. It wasn't welded steel. It wasn't traditional sculpture. They thought it was craft, or something else, but not art. They couldn't define it in the early Fifties when I was starting out.
If you want your writing to be taken seriously, don't marry and have kids, and above all, don't die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that.
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