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 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
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 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
Words such as truth, art, veracity, or anything are stupid in themselves. — 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 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
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
“Let us consider two important factors, the two poles of the creation of art: the artist on one hand, and on the… — 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 Copy Share Image
Chess players are madmen of a certain quality, the way the artist is supposed to be, and isn't, in general. — 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
If your choice enters into it, then taste is involved - bad taste, good taste, uninteresting taste. Taste is the enemy of… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
What I have in mind is that art may be bad, good or indifferent, but, whatever adjective is used, we must call… — Marcel Duchamp 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 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 Copy Share Image
Artists of all times are like the gamblers of Monte Carlo, and this blind lottery allows some to succeed and ruins others.… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Everything important that I have done can be put into a little suitcase. — Marcel Duchamp 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 it because… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 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
