creative acts

“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.” 

― Marcel Duchamp

In writing an artist statement, I've contempated the act of making or as Marcel Duchamp says "the creative act". The artist can create but is the work finished? No, the viewer or "the spectator" then contributes through contemplation of the work.