Not all artists are Chess players, but all Chess players are artists — 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
'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
In the creative act, the artist goes from intention to realization through a chain of totally subjective reactions. — 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
“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
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
I have drawn people's attention to the fact that art is a mirage. A mirage, just like the oasis that appears in… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
While all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists. — 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
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
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
I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste. — 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
