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.


'The Creative Act', 1957

Marcel Duchamp Quotes

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...

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...

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...

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...