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Dialogues with Marcel Duchamp ed. Pierre Cabanne (1967)Quoted in Harriet Janis and Sidney Janis, "Marcel Duchamp: Anti-Artist" View (New York, March 21, 1945)quoted in Kynaston McShine, Marcel Duchamp eds. Anne d'Harnoncourt and Kynaston McShine (1989)"The Creative Act" published in Art News, New York, Summer 1957 Time (New York, March 10, 1952)

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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

Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968), French artist. Time (New York, March 10, 1952).

Duchamp had given up painting in favor of chess thirty years before.

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