I didn't abandon everything at a moment's notice - on the contrary. I returned to France from America, leaving the 'Large Glass'… — Marcel Duchamp America Copy Share Image
If your choice enters into it, then taste is involved - bad taste, good taste, uninteresting taste. Taste is the enemy of… — Marcel Duchamp Art Copy Share Image
The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
The individual, man as a man, man as a brain, if you like, interests me more than what he makes, because I've… — Marcel Duchamp Art Copy Share Image
The Chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chessboard, express… — Marcel Duchamp Alphabet 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 Art Copy Share Image
To all appearances, the artist acts like a mediumistic being who, from the labyrinth beyond time and space, seeks his way out… — 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
Man can never expect to start from scratch; he must start from ready-made things, like even his own mother and father. — Marcel Duchamp Father Copy Share Image
