I believe that a picture, a work of art, lives and dies just as we do. — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
My art would be that of living: each moment, each breath is a work inscribed nowhere. — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
It's true, of course, humor is very important in my life, as you know. That's the only reason for living, in fact. — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
The life of an artist is like the life of a monk, a lewd monk if you like, very Rabelaisian. It is… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
I like living, breathing better than working... Each second, each breath is a work which is inscribed nowhere, which is neither visual… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
It is curious to note how fragile the memory is, even for the important times in one's life. This is, moreover, what… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
I like living, breathing better than working...my art is that of living. Each second, each breath is a work which is inscribed… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
This concern which interests us more than anything else: the blurring of the distinction between art and life. — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
Art is a habit-forming drug. Art has absolutely no existence as veracity, as truth. People always speak of it with this great,… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
I became a librarian at the Sainte-Genevieve Library in Paris. I made this gesture to rid myself of a certain milieu, a… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
The word 'art' interests me very much. If it comes from Sanskrit, as I've heard, it signifies 'making.' Now everyone makes something,… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
All this twaddle, the existence of God, atheism, determinism, liberation, societies, death, etc., are pieces of a chess game called language, and… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
Society takes what it wants. The artist himself does not count, because there is no actual existence for the work of art.… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
The life of a chess master is much more difficult than that of an artist - much more depressing. An artist knows… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
One is a painter because one wants so-called freedom; one doesn't want to go to the office every morning. — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share
Society takes what it wants. The artist himself does not count, because there is no actual existence for the work of art. The work… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share
The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share
I believe that the artist doesn't know what he does. I attach even more importance to the spectator than to the artist. — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share
Rational intelligence is dangerous and leads to ratiocination. The painter is a medium who doesn't realize what he is doing. No translation can express… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share
As soon as we start putting our thoughts into words and sentences everything gets distorted, language is just no damn good—I use it because… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share
The basis for my own work during the years just before coming to America in 1915 was a desire to break up forms -… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share
The curious thing about that moustache and goatee is that when you look at the Mona Lisa it becomes a man. It is not… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share
I am afraid to end up being in need to sell canvases - in other words, to be a society painter. — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share
To all appearances the artist acts like a mediumistic being who, from the labyrinth beyond time and space, seeks his way out to a… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share
Words such as truth, art, veracity, or anything are stupid in themselves. — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share
