I have drawn people's attention to the fact that art is a mirage. A mirage, just like the … - Marcel Duchamp

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Marcel Duchamp

I have drawn people's attention to the fact that art is a mirage. A mirage, just like the oasis that appears in the desert. It is very beautiful, until the moment when you die of thirst, obviously. But we do not die of thirst in the field of art. The mirage has substance.

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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. If we give the attributes of a medium to the artist, we must then deny him the state of consciousness on the aesthetic plane about what he is doing or why he is doing it. All this decisions in the artistic execution of the work rest with pure intuition and cannot be translated into a self-analysis, spoken or written, or even thought out.

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I believe that a picture, a work of art, lives and dies just as we do.

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I've decided that art is a habit-forming drug. That's all it is, for the artist, for the collector, for anybody connected with it.

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