Duchamp sayings

Here are some famous quotes by the artist Marcel Duchamp:

1. "I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste."

2. "I don't believe in art. I believe in artists."

3. "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."

4. "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."

5. "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."

6. "Art is a habit-forming drug."

7. "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."

8. "The readymade is a form of expression that is used in the same way as a painting or a sculpture. It has been a way of denying the possibility of defining art."

9. "I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste."

10. "It is not enough for a work to be just surprising; it must be a good surprise."

Above is Duchamp sayings.