Marcel Duchamp in his artist quotes on ready-made art & life - free resource, American art history

Marcel Duchamp in his quotes - the French-born artist on his ready-made art, paintings and his artistic life in France and later in the United States - free resource for students, pupils, art-lovers and teachers in American art history

.
Marcel Duchamp became a famous artist for his invention of the ‘ready-made’ in modern art, like his works ‘Fountain’, ‘Bicycle Wheel’, and ‘Bottle Rack’.

Marcel Duchamp was a French-born artist, as two of his brothers. Duchamp described in his artist quotes the story of his ready-made art and his artist life - first in France and later in America. He looked back on his participation in Dada art movement as a young artist in France and his later involvement with French Surrealism. He criticized as older artist the later American Pop Art-scene of the 1960’s.
.
Some selected artist quotes of artist Marcel Duchamp - as a short introduction of his extended quotes in the PDF:

• ’I have, for example, a large snow shovel on which I have inscribed at the bottom: In advance of the broken arm, (Don’t tear your hair out)… … Another ‘readymade’ is called: Emergency in favour of twice possible… This long preamble just to say: Take this bottle rack for yourself. I’m making it a ‘readymade’ remotely.’ - Duchamp’s quote, in a letter to his sister, from New York, 1916

• ’Painting is over and done with. Who could do anything better than this propeller? Look, could you do that? (remark to Brancusi - visiting together the Paris Aviation Show of 1919). - quote of Duchamp, as cited in: ‘Looking at Dada’, eds. Sarah Ganz Blythe & Edward D. Powers, p. 49

• ’…so absorbed I am in playing chess. I play night and day and nothing in the whole world interests me more than finding the right move’ - Duchamp’s quote, in his letter, 1919, as cited in ‘The Duchamp Book’, Tate Publishing, London 2008 p. 159
  .
  selection of free art-resources on the artist Marcel Duchamp:

  • biographical notes on Marcel Duchamp, Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Duchamp
  • artist-quotes of ànd about Duchamp, Wikiquote: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Marcel_Duchamp
  • images of the painting art ofMarcel Duchamp, Wikiart: https://www.wikiart.org/en/marcel-duchamp
    .
    editor: Fons Heijnsbroek / Matrozenhof (FotoDutch on Wikiquote):<br>[http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/User:FotoDutch]