Home » Quote » Marcel Duchamp » „So if I say you that your paintings [which his brother-in-law recently made] have nothing in common with what we see generally classified and accepted, and that you have always managed to produce things that were entirely your own work, as I truly see it, that does not mean you have the right to be seated next to Leonardo -What’s more, this originality is suicidal as it distances you from a ‘clientele’ used to ‘copies of copiers’, often referred to as ‘tradition’-One more thing, your technique is not the ‘expected’ technique – It’s your own personal technique, borrowed from nobody – and there again, this doesn’t attract the clientele…. In a word, do less self-analysis and enjoy your work without worrying about opinions, your own as well as that of others.“
„So if I say you that your paintings [which his brother-in-law recently made] have nothing in common with what we see generally classified and accepted, and that you have always managed to produce things that were entirely your own work, as I truly see it, that does not mean you have the right to be seated next to Leonardo -What’s more, this originality is suicidal as it distances you from a ‘clientele’ used to ‘copies of copiers’, often referred to as ‘tradition’-One more thing, your technique is not the ‘expected’ technique – It’s your own personal technique, borrowed from nobody – and there again, this doesn’t attract the clientele…. In a word, do less self-analysis and enjoy your work without worrying about opinions, your own as well as that of others.“
