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The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act.

Source: The Creative Act, lecture, Apr 1957, in Art News (NY), Summer 1957.
-- Marcel Duchamp, (Jul 28 1887-1968), French-US artist; He was an important cubist and founder of Dadaism who painted Nude Descending a Staircase, 1912.

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