"The Duchamp thing is played both ways. The 'Urinal' [a famous 'readymade' art-work of Marcel Duchamp] signed R. Mutt, is played as an art object, and then as the opposite of a legitimate art object. And it vacillates back and forth. Well perhaps that is a nice thing, but I don't know. I find Duchampianism a bore. It’s very adolescent. I was very much excited by it when I was a teenager.. .My tradition is quite different. My conscious tradition is through Constantin Brâncuși, and Brancusi just strikes me as an infinitely wiser and infinitely more talented, an infinitely stronger figure than Duchamp. I think I could have done my work if Duchamp had not lived. I could not have done my work if Brancusi had not lived."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
Quote of Carl Andre, as quoted in Artists talks 1969 – 1977, ed. Peggy Gale, The Press N.S.C.A.D, Nova Scotia, Canada 2004, pp. 15-16
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Marcel_Duchamp
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Marcel Duchamp
Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp (July 28, 1887 – October 2, 1968) was a French painter, sculptor, chess player, and writer whose work is associated with Cubism, Dada, and conceptual art. Duchamp is commonly regarded, along with Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, as one of the three artists who helped to define the revolutionary developments in the plastic arts in the opening decades of the 20th century, responsible for significant developments in painting and sculpture. He was the first artist creatin
59 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Marcel Duchamp →
Related Quotes
"I have impressed upon you my preoccupation with earning money so as to have a secure existence over there. That's the…"
"People talk of Pablo Picasso as the leader of the Cubists but, strictly speaking, he is no longer a Cubist. Today he …"
"Now, if you [his sister, Suzanne Duchamp ] have been up to my place, you will have seen, in the studio, [his former s…"
"They say any artist paying six dollars may exhibit Mr. Richard Mutt [= Long time scholars recognize R. Mutt was Ducha…"
"To be looked at [from the other side of his art-work 'The Glass'] with one eye, close to, for almost an hour."
"Painting is over and done with. Who could do anything better than this propeller? Look, could you do that?"
"If a straight horizontal thread one meter long falls from a height of one meter on to a horizontal plane twisting as …"
"I have been wanting to write to you for some time, but never have time, so absorbed I am in playing chess. I play nig…"
"You [ Katherine Sophie Dreier; director of the Art Center in New York City; she co-founded with Duchamp and Man Ray t…"
"..I am not going to New York, I am leaving Paris. That's quite different. Long before the war [World War 1.] I alread…"