Marcel Duchamp Quote

This long preamble just to tell you not to judge your own work as you are the last person to see it (with true eyes) – What you see neither redeems nor condemns it – All words used to explain or praise it are false translations of what is going on beyond sensations.
You are, as we all are, obsessed by the accumulation of principles or anti-principles which generally cloud your mind with their terminology and, without knowing it, you are a prisoner of what you think is a liberated education –
In your particular case, you are certainly the victim of the 'Ecole de Paris' [French abstract art movement which developed after world War 2.], a joke that's lasted for 60 years.


In a letter to Jean Crotti (Duchamp's brother-in-law) and his sister Suzanne Duchamp, New York 17 Augustus 1952; as quoted in The Duchamp Book, ed. Gavin Parkinson, Tate Publishing, London 2008 p. 167


This long preamble just to tell you not to judge your own work as you are the last person to see it (with true eyes) – What you see neither redeems ...

This long preamble just to tell you not to judge your own work as you are the last person to see it (with true eyes) – What you see neither redeems ...

This long preamble just to tell you not to judge your own work as you are the last person to see it (with true eyes) – What you see neither redeems ...

This long preamble just to tell you not to judge your own work as you are the last person to see it (with true eyes) – What you see neither redeems ...