I shy away from the word 'creation.' In the ordinary, social meaning of the word - well, it's very nice, but fundamentally,… — 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 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
I've decided that art is a habit-forming drug. That's all it is, for the artist, for the collector, for anybody connected with… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
“I force myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.” — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
If only America would realize that the art of Europe is finished - dead - and that America is the country of… — Marcel Duchamp 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 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
My art would be that of living: each moment, each breath is a work inscribed nowhere. — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
The word 'art' interests me very much. If it comes from Sanskrit, as I've heard, it signifies 'making. — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
I believe that a picture, a work of art, lives and dies just as we do. — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
An abstract painting need in 50 years by no means look "abstract" any longer. — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
Distortion came first from the fauves, who, in turn, were under the strong influence of primitive art. — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
I don’t care about the word ‘art’ because it has been so discredited. So I want to get rid of it. There… — Marcel Duchamp 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 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 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 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
The artist performs only one part of the creative process. The onlooker completes it, and it is the onlooker who has the… — 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
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
