I wanted to use my possibility to be an individual, and I suppose I have, no? — Marcel Duchamp Identity Copy Share Image
While all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists. — Marcel Duchamp Art Copy Share Image
The 'Glass' is not my autobiography, nor is it self-expression. Far from it. — Marcel Duchamp Autobiography Copy Share Image
I feel shame, not for the wrong things I have done, but for the right things that I have failed to do. — 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 Artist 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 Artist Copy Share Image
You have to approach something with indifference, as if you had no aesthetic emotion. The choice of readymades is always based on… — Marcel Duchamp Absence Copy Share Image
I am against the word 'anti' because it's a little bit like 'atheist,' as compared to 'believer.' And an atheist is just… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
I shy away from the word 'creation.' In the ordinary, social meaning of the word - well, it's very nice, but fundamentally,… — Marcel Duchamp Art Copy Share Image
When the vision of the 'Nude' flashed upon me, I knew that it would break forever the enslaving chains of Naturalism. — 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 Fantasy 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 Art 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 Art 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 Artist Copy Share Image
One does not contemplate it like a picture. The idea of contemplation disappears completely. Simply take note that it's a bottle rack,… — 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 Alien Copy Share Image
What would I do with money? I have enough for my needs. I don't want any more. If I had a lot,… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
In the last analysis, the artist may shout from all the rooftops that he is a genius; he will have to wait… — Marcel Duchamp Analysis Copy Share Image
“I realized very soon the danger of repeating indiscriminately (forms of) expression... for the spectator even more than for the artist, art… — Marcel Duchamp Art Copy Share Image
I thought to discourage aesthetics... I threw the bottlerack and the urinal in their faces and now they admire them for their… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
All decisions in the artistic execution of the work rest with pure intuition and cannot be translated into a self-analysis. — Marcel Duchamp Analysis Copy Share Image
I was never interested in looking at myself in an aesthetic mirror. My intention was always to get away from myself, though… — Marcel Duchamp Game Copy Share Image
As soon as we start putting our thoughts into words and sentences everything gets distorted, language is just no damn good—I use… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
Gravity is not controlled physically in us by one of the 5 ordinary senses. We always reduce a gravity experience to an… — 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 Art Copy Share Image
I think there is a great deal to the idea of not doing a thing, but that when you do a thing,… — 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 Art Copy Share Image
If a shadow is a two-dimensional projection of the three-dimensional world, then the three-dimensional world as we know it is the projection… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art - and much more. It cannot be commercialized.… — Marcel Duchamp Art Copy Share Image
There was an incident, in 1912, which 'gave me a turn,' so to speak: when I brought the 'Nude Descending a Staircase'… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
It is a matter of great indifference to me what criticism is printed in the papers and the magazines. I am simply… — Marcel Duchamp Criticism Copy Share Image
I came to feel an artist might use anything - a dot, a line, the most conventional or unconventional symbol - t… — Marcel Duchamp 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 Shadow Copy Share Image
My idea was to chose an object that wouldn't attract me, either by its beauty or by its ugliness. To find a… — Marcel Duchamp Beauty Copy Share Image
There is something like an explosion in the meaning of certain words: they have a greater value than their meaning in the… — Marcel Duchamp Language Copy Share Image
What art is, in reality, is this missing link, not the links which exist. It's not what you see that is art;… — Marcel Duchamp Art Copy Share Image
My position is the lack of a position, but, of course, you can't even talk about it; the minute you talk, you… — Marcel Duchamp Game Copy Share Image
The curious thing about that moustache and goatee is that when you look at the Mona Lisa it becomes a man. It… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
