Marcel Duchamp Quotes About Chess

Quotes about: Chess

• While all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.

  Marcel Duchamp

  Artist, Player, Chess

  "Drawing on Art: Duchamp and Company".

• Chess is a sport. A violent sport.

  Marcel Duchamp

  Sports, Chess, Violent

  Dalia Judovitz, Marcel Duchamp (2010). “Drawing on Art: Duchamp and Company”, p.107, U of Minnesota Press

• The Chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chessboard, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem

  Marcel Duchamp

  Beauty, Block, Chess Pieces

  Ecke Bonk, Marcel Duchamp (1989). “Marcel Duchamp, the box in a valise: De ou par Marcel Duchamp ou Rrose Sélavy : inventory of an edition”, Rizzoli Intl Pubns

• All this twaddle, the existence of God, atheism, determinism, liberation, societies, death, etc., are pieces of a chess game called language, and they are amusing only if one does not preoccupy oneself with 'winning or losing this game of chess.

  Marcel Duchamp

  Winning, Games, Chess Game

  Ecke Bonk, Marcel Duchamp (1989). “Marcel Duchamp, the box in a valise: De ou par Marcel Duchamp ou Rrose Sélavy : inventory of an edition”, Rizzoli Intl Pubns

• Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another.

  Marcel Duchamp

  Swag, Pieces, Movement

• I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art - and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position.

  Marcel Duchamp

  Beauty, Art, Chess

  "TIME" Magazine, March 10, 1952.

• The life of a chess master is much more difficult than that of an artist - much more depressing. An artist knows that someday there'll be recognition and monetary reward, but for the chess master there is little public recognition and absolutely no hope of supporting himself by his endeavors. If Bobby Fischer came to me for advice, I certainly would not discourage him - as if anyone could - but I would try to make it positively clear that he will never have any money from chess, live a monk-like existence and know more rejection than any artist ever has, struggling to be known and accepted.

  Marcel Duchamp

  Depressing, Struggle, Artist

• Chess players are madmen of a certain quality, the way the artist is supposed to be, and isn't, in general.

  Marcel Duchamp

  Artist, Player, Quality

  Pierre Cabanne, Marcel Duchamp (1971). “Dialogues with Marcel Duchamp”, Studio

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