The life of an artist is like the life of a monk, a lewd monk if you like, very Rabelaisian. It is… — 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
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
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
This concern which interests us more than anything else: the blurring of the distinction between art and life. — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
In my day artists wanted to be outcasts, pariahs. Now they are all integrated into society — 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
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
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
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
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 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
“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
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
I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art - and much more. It cannot be commercialized.… — 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 Copy Share Image
I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste. — 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
Words such as truth, art, veracity, or anything are stupid in themselves. — 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
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
While all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists. — 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
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
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
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 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 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
