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Art Quotes - Artist Quotes
Art Quotes - Artist Quotes
I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products.
- Marcel Duchamp
Society takes what it wants. The artist himself does not count, because there is no actual existence for the work of art. The work of art is always based on the two poles of the onlooker and the maker, and the spark that comes from the bipolar action gives birth to something - like electricity. But the onlooker has the last word, and it is always posterity that makes the masterpiece. The artist should not concern himself with this, because it has nothing to do with him.
- Marcel Duchamp
Art is a habit-forming drug. That’s all it is for the artist, for the collector, for anybody connected with it. Art has absolutely no existence as varacity, as truth. People speak of it with great, religious reverence, but I don’t see why it is to be so much revered. I’m afraid I’m an agnostic when it comes to art. I don’t believe in it with all the mystical trimmings. As a drug it’s probably very useful for many people, very sedative, but as a religion it’s not even as good as God.
- Marcel Duchamp
Art is like a shipwreck .. it’s everyman for himself.
- Marcel Duchamp
Art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can only be explored by those willing to take the risks.
- Mark Rothko
