Tagged with: art
"Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to a Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason."
-Albert Camus 1932
"...I considered painting as a means of expression , not an end in itself. One means of expression among others, and not and not a complete end for life at all; in the same way I consider that color is only a means of expression in painting and not an end. In other words, painting should not be exclusively retinal or visual; it should have to do with the grey matter, with our urge for understanding. This is generally what I love. I don't want to pin myself down to one little circle, and I tried at least to be as universal as I could."
-M Duchamp
From interview 1956
"The question of shop windows [therefore]
To undergo the interrogation of shop windows [therefore]
The exigency of the shop window [therefore]
The shop window proof of the outside world [therefore]
When one undergoes the examination of the shop window, one also pronounces one's own sentence. In fact, one's choice is "round trip." From the demands of shop windows, from the inevitable response to shop windows, my choice is determined. No obstinacy, ad absurdum, of hiding the coition through a glass pane with one or many objects of the shop window. The penalty consists in cutting the pane and in feeling regret as possession is consummated. Q.E.D"
How about a little more Duchamp?
Question d'hygiene intime:
Faut-il mettre la moelle de l'épée dans l poil de l'aimée?
[Question of intimate hygiene:
Should you put the hilt of the foil in the quilt of the goil?]
and
Parmi nos articles de quincaillerie parasseusse, nous recommandons un robinet qui s'arrete de couler quand on ne l'ecoute pas.
[Among our articles of lazy hardware we recommend a faucet which stops dripping when nobody is listening to it.]