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                                             January 27, 2009

Some quotes of Marcel Duchamp from
"The Bride and the Bachelors" (1962),
Calvin Tomkins, p.18:

  "Art has absolutely no existence as
  veracity, as truth."                         Perhaps.  But
                                               then what does?



  "The onlooker is as important as the
  artist.  In spite of what the artist
  thinks he is doing, something stays
  on that is completely independent of
  what he intended, and that something             He has a point here,
  is grabbed by society -- if he's                 but how is this different
  lucky.  The artist himself doesn't               from any other kind of
  count.  Society just takes what it               communication?
  wants.  The work of art is always
  based on these two poles of the maker            What's said isn't precisely
  and the onlooker, and the spark that             what's heard -- but what's
  comes from this bi-polar action gives            heard is not (usually)
  birth to something, like electricity."           completely unrelated to
                                                   what's said.





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