From a purely ethnological point of view, I was not a period-born Dada. — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
“I force myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.” — Marcel Duchamp Art Copy Share Image
When you make a painting, even abstract, there is always a sort of necessary filling-in. — Marcel Duchamp Abstract Copy Share Image
There does not exist a painter who knows himself or knows what he is doing. — Marcel Duchamp Artist Copy Share Image
Why are all the artists so dead-set on distorting? It seems to be a reaction against photography, but I'm not sure. — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
For me, the 'Three Stoppages' was a first gesture liberating me from the past. — 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 Art Copy Share Image
The word 'art' interests me very much. If it comes from Sanskrit, as I've heard, it signifies 'making. — Marcel Duchamp Art Copy Share Image
In chess, there are some extremely beautiful things in the domain of movement, but not in the visual domain. It's the imagining… — Marcel Duchamp Beautiful Copy Share Image
The curious thing about the Ready-Made is that I've never been able to arrive at a definition or explanation that fully satisfies… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
“You get my idea. Nothing of "artistic" literature about it, just straight medicine, a universal panacea, a fetish in a sense: if… — Marcel Duchamp Art 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 Artist Copy Share Image
Things were sort of Bohemian in Montmartre - one lived, one painted, one was a painter - all that doesn't mean anything,… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
You cannot define electricity. The same can be said of art. It is a kind of inner current in a human being,… — Marcel Duchamp Art Copy Share Image
Humor and laughter - not necessarily derogatory derision - are my pet tools. This may come from my general philosophy of never… — Marcel Duchamp Comedy Copy Share Image
The entire world of art has reached such a low level, it has been commercialized to such a degree that art and… — Marcel Duchamp Art Copy Share Image
“Let us consider two important factors, the two poles of the creation of art: the artist on one hand, and on the… — Marcel Duchamp Art Copy Share Image
When I put a bicycle wheel on a stool, the fork down, there was no idea of a 'ready-made' or anything else.… — Marcel Duchamp Bicycle Copy Share Image
The danger is in pleasing an immediate public: the immediate public that comes around you and takes you in and accepts you… — Marcel Duchamp Danger Copy Share Image
I haven't been in the Louvre for twenty years. It doesn't interest me because I have these doubts about the value of… — Marcel Duchamp Interest 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 Abstraction Copy Share Image
Since a three-dimensional object casts a two-dimensional shadow, we should be able to imagine the unknown four-dimensional object whose shadow we are.… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
In France, in Europe, the young artists of any generation always act as grandsons of some great man - Poussin, for example,… — Marcel Duchamp Art Copy Share Image
The last hundred years have been retinal; even the cubists were. The surrealists tried to free themselves, and earlier so had the… — 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 Alive Copy Share Image
In the creative act, the artist goes from intention to realization through a chain of totally subjective reactions. — Marcel Duchamp Art Copy Share Image
