An abstract painting need in 50 years by no means look "abstract" any longer. — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
There does not exist a painter who knows himself or knows what he is doing. — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
When you make a painting, even abstract, there is always a sort of necessary filling-in. — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
No, the thing to do is try to make a painting that will be alive in your own lifetime. — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
Dada was an extreme protest against the physical side of painting. It was a metaphysical attitude. — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
I am afraid to end up being in need to sell canvases - in other words, to be a society painter. — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
I was interested in ideas, not merely visual products. I wanted to put painting once again at the service of the mind. — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
I was interested in ideas, not in visual products. I wanted to put painting again in the service of the mind. — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
Painting is a language of its own. You cannot interpret one form of expression with another form of expression. — 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 Image
Painter after painter, since the beginning of the century, has tended toward abstraction. First, the Impressionists simplified the landscape in terms of… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
Rational intelligence is dangerous and leads to ratiocination. The painter is a medium who doesn't realize what he is doing. No translation… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
All painting, beginning with Impressionism, is antiscientific, even Seurat. I was interested in introducing the precise and exact aspect of science, which… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
In the 'Nude Descending a Staircase,' I wanted to create a static image of movement: movement is an abstraction, a deduction articulated… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
I couldn't go into the haphazard drawing or the paintings, the splashing of paint. I wanted to go back to a completely… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
Since the tubes of paint used by the artist are manufactured and ready-made products, we must conclude that all the paintings in… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
In French, there is an old expression, la patte, meaning the artist's touch, his personal style, his 'paw'. I wanted to get… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
You know exactly what I think of photography. I would like to see it make people despise painting until something else will… — 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
Since Courbet, it's been believed that painting is addressed to the retina. That was everyone's error. The retinal shudder! Before, painting had… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
'Art or anti-art?' was the question I asked when I returned from Munich in 1912 and decided to abandon pure painting or… — 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
