- Magic
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Beauty
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
The individual - man as a man, man as a brain, if you like - interests me more than what he makes because I've noticed that most artists only repeat themselves.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products.
- Meaning
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is something like an explosion in the meaning of certain words: they have a greater value than their meaning in the dictionary.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
I shy away from the word 'creation.' In the ordinary, social meaning of the word - well, it's very nice, but fundamentally, I don't believe in the creative function of the artist. He's a man like any other.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The word 'art' interests me very much. If it comes from Sanskrit, as I've heard, it signifies 'making.' Now everyone makes something, and those who make things on a canvas with a frame, they're called artists. Formerly, they were called craftsmen, a term I prefer. We're all craftsmen, in civilian or military or artistic life.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you make a painting, even abstract, there is always a sort of necessary filling-in.
- America
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't abandon everything at a moment's notice - on the contrary. I returned to France from America, leaving the 'Large Glass' unfinished.
- Drawing
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- Nov 07, 2020
A game of chess is a visual and plastic thing, and if it isn't geometric in the static sense of the word, it is mechanical, since it moves. It's a drawing; it's a mechanical reality.
- Beauty
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- Nov 07, 2020
In chess, there are some extremely beautiful things in the domain of movement, but not in the visual domain. It's the imagining of the movement or of the gesture that makes the beauty in this case.
- Enthusiasm
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was highly attracted to chess for forty or forty-five years; then, little by little, my enthusiasm lessened.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really had no program or any established plan. I didn't even ask myself if I should sell my paintings or not.
- Mean
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- Nov 07, 2020
Things were sort of Bohemian in Montmartre - one lived, one painted, one was a painter - all that doesn't mean anything, fundamentally.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
One is a painter because one wants so-called freedom; one doesn't want to go to the office every morning.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
If only America would realize that the art of Europe is finished - dead - and that America is the country of the art of the future, instead of trying to base everything she does on European traditions!
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The danger is in pleasing an immediate public: the immediate public that comes around you and takes you in and accepts you and gives you success and everything. Instead of that, you should wait for fifty years or a hundred years for your true public. That is the only public that interests me.
- Product
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nov 07, 2020
A painting that doesn't shock isn't worth painting.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
What would I do with money? I have enough for my needs. I don't want any more. If I had a lot, I would have to care for it, worry about it.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
Painting is a language of its own. You cannot interpret one form of expression with another form of expression.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since Courbet, it's been believed that painting is addressed to the retina. That was everyone's error. The retinal shudder! Before, painting had other functions: it could be religious, philosophical, moral... our whole century is completely retinal, except for the Surrealists, who tried to go outside it somewhat.
- Mystery
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rational intelligence is dangerous and leads to ratiocination. The painter is a medium who doesn't realize what he is doing. No translation can express the mystery of sensibility, a word, still unreliable, which is nevertheless the basis of painting or poetry, like a kind of alchemy.
- Nov 07, 2020
Alchemy is a kind of philosophy: a kind of thinking that leads to a way of understanding.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
I happen to have been born a Cartesian. The French education is based on a sequence of strict logic. You carry it with you.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I refused to accept anything, doubted everything. So, doubting everything, I had to find something that had not existed before, something I had not thought of before. Any idea that came to me, the thing would be to turn it around and try to see it with another set of senses.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
Marcel, no more painting; go get a job.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I put a bicycle wheel on a stool, the fork down, there was no idea of a 'ready-made' or anything else. It was just a distraction. I didn't have any special reason to do it, or any intention of showing it or describing anything.
- Others
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- Nov 07, 2020
I haven't been in the Louvre for twenty years. It doesn't interest me because I have these doubts about the value of the judgments which decided that all these pictures should be presented to the Louvre instead of others which weren't even considered.
- Photography
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- Nov 07, 2020
Why are all the artists so dead-set on distorting? It seems to be a reaction against photography, but I'm not sure.
- Landscape
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- Nov 07, 2020
Painter after painter, since the beginning of the century, has tended toward abstraction. First, the Impressionists simplified the landscape in terms of color, and then the Fauves simplified it again by adding distortion, which, for some reason, is a characteristic of our century.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
The entire world of art has reached such a low level, it has been commercialized to such a degree that art and everything related to it has become one of the most trivial activities of our epoch.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am against the word 'anti' because it's a little bit like 'atheist,' as compared to 'believer.' And an atheist is just as much of a religious man as the believer is.
- Point Of View
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- Nov 07, 2020
From a purely ethnological point of view, I was not a period-born Dada.
- Attitude
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dada was an extreme protest against the physical side of painting. It was a metaphysical attitude.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
One does not contemplate it like a picture. The idea of contemplation disappears completely. Simply take note that it's a bottle rack, or that it's a bottle rack that has changed its destination... It's not the visual question of the readymade that counts; it's the fact that it exists, even.
- First Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
One must pass through the network of influence. One is obligated to be influenced, and one accepts this influence very naturally. From the start, one doesn't realize this. The first thing to know: one doesn't realize one is influenced. One thinks he is already liberated, and one is far from it!
- Forever
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the vision of the 'Nude' flashed upon me, I knew that it would break forever the enslaving chains of Naturalism.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tradition is the great misleader because it's too easy to follow what has already been done - even though you may think you're giving it a kick. I was really trying to invent, instead of merely expressing myself.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was never interested in looking at myself in an aesthetic mirror. My intention was always to get away from myself, though I knew perfectly well that I was using myself. Call it a little game between 'I' and 'me.'
- Influence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Distortion came first from the fauves, who, in turn, were under the strong influence of primitive art.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the beginning, the cubists broke up form without even knowing they were doing it. Probably the compulsion to show multiple sides of an object forced us to break the object up - or, even better, to project a panorama that unfolded different facets of the same object.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
The last hundred years have been retinal; even the cubists were. The surrealists tried to free themselves, and earlier so had the dadaists, but unfortunately, these latter were nihilists and didn't produce enough to prove their point, which, by the way, they didn't have to prove - according to their theory.
- Derision
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- Nov 07, 2020
Humor and laughter - not necessarily derogatory derision - are my pet tools. This may come from my general philosophy of never taking the world too seriously - for fear of dying of boredom.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man can never expect to start from scratch; he must start from ready-made things, like even his own mother and father.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
My Ready-Mades have nothing to do with the 'objet trouve' because the so-called 'found object' is completely directed by personal taste. Personal taste decides that this is a beautiful object and is unique.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Art or anti-art?' was the question I asked when I returned from Munich in 1912 and decided to abandon pure painting or painting for its own sake. I thought of introducing elements alien to painting as the only way out of a pictorial and chromatic dead end.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
All painting, beginning with Impressionism, is antiscientific, even Seurat. I was interested in introducing the precise and exact aspect of science, which hadn't often been done, or at least hadn't been talked about very much.
- Conclude
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since the tubes of paint used by the artist are manufactured and ready-made products, we must conclude that all the paintings in the world are 'ready-mades aided' and also works of assemblage.
- Made
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- Nov 07, 2020
Can works be made which are not 'of art'?
- Interest
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- Nov 07, 2020