Marcel Duchamp citáty

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„Ačkoli všichni umělci nejsou šachisté, všichni šachisté jsou umělci.“

„Možná realita je získána mírným ohýbáním fyzikálních a chemických zákonů.“

„Jakmile začneme vkládat naše myšlenky do slov a vět, vše se zkreslí, jazyk je prostě zatraceně dobrý - používám ho, protože musím, ale nedůvěřuji mu. Nikdy si nerozumíme.“

„Lidé mluví o Pablovi Picassovi jako o vůdci kubistů, ale striktně řečeno, on už není kubista. Dnes je kubista, zítra bude něco jiného. Jediní praví kubisté jsou Gleizes a Metzinger.“

„Umění není o sobě, nýbrž o pozornosti, kterou mu přinášíme.“

„Je-li stín dvojrozměrnou projekcí trojrozměrného světa, pak trojrozměrný svět, jak ho známe, je projekcí čtyřrozměrného vesmíru.“

“The only man in the past whom I really respect was Seurat... He didn't let his hand interfere with his mind.”

“The chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chess-board, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem... I have come to the personal conclusion that while all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.”

“I am a great enemy of critical writing as all I see in these interpretations and comparisons with Kafka and others is just an opportunity to open up the floodgates of words which, overall, amounts to Carrouges or at times a translation of Carrouges – very free to makes his ideas look good. Obviously any work of art or literature, in the public domain, is automatically the subject of the victim of such transformations – and this is not just confined to the case of Carrouges. Every fifty years, El Greco is revised and adapted to the taste of the day, either overrated or underrated. The same goes for all surviving works of art. And this leads me to say that a work of art is made entirely by those who look at it or read it and make it survive by their acclaim or even their condemnation.”

“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.”

“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.”