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.
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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 don't believe in art. I believe in artists.
Marcel Duchamp
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....
Marcel Duchamp
I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.
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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.
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I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products.
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