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....
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I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.Marcel Duchamp
Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another.
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Living is more a question of what one spends than what one makes.
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All in all, the creative act is not performed by the artist alone the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act. This becomes even more obvious when posterity gives its final verdict and sometimes rehabilitates forgotten artists.
Marcel Duchamp
The creative act is not performed by the artist alone the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act.
Marcel Duchamp
I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products.
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