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title: "2 Bad taste Quotes By Marcel Duchamp"
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> [If your choice enters into it, then taste is involved - bad taste, good taste, uninteresting taste. Taste is the enemy of art, A-R-T.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcel-duchamp/if-your-choice-enters-into-it-then-taste-is-involved-bad-taste-good/)

[Marcel Duchamp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcel-duchamp/)

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> [You have to approach something with indifference, as if you had no aesthetic emotion. The choice of readymades is always based on visual indifference and, at the same time, on the total absence of good or bad taste.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcel-duchamp/you-have-to-approach-something-with-indifference-as-if-you-had-no/)

[Marcel Duchamp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcel-duchamp/)

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## Other authors on Bad taste

## More by Marcel Duchamp

> [One is a painter because one wants so-called freedom; one doesn't want to go to the office every morning.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcel-duchamp/one-is-a-painter-because-one-wants-so-called-freedom-one-doesn-t-want/)

[Marcel Duchamp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcel-duchamp/)

> [Humor is the only reason to live.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcel-duchamp/humor-is-the-only-reason-to-live/)

[Marcel Duchamp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcel-duchamp/)

> [Society takes what it wants. The artist himself does not count, because there is no actual existence for the work of art. The work…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcel-duchamp/society-takes-what-it-wants-the-artist-himself-does-not-count-because/)

[Marcel Duchamp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcel-duchamp/)

> [The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcel-duchamp/the-creative-act-is-not-performed-by-the-artist-alone-the-spectator/)

[Marcel Duchamp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcel-duchamp/)

> [I believe that the artist doesn't know what he does. I attach even more importance to the spectator than to the artist.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcel-duchamp/i-believe-that-the-artist-doesn-t-know-what-he-does-i-attach-even/)

[Marcel Duchamp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcel-duchamp/)

> [Living is more a question of what one spends than what one makes.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcel-duchamp/living-is-more-a-question-of-what-one-spends-than-what-one-makes/)

[Marcel Duchamp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcel-duchamp/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcel-duchamp/rational-intelligence-is-dangerous-and-leads-to-ratiocination-the/)

[Marcel Duchamp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcel-duchamp/)

> [Everything important that I have done can be put into a little suitcase.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcel-duchamp/everything-important-that-i-have-done-can-be-put-into-a-little/)

[Marcel Duchamp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcel-duchamp/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcel-duchamp/as-soon-as-we-start-putting-our-thoughts-into-words-and-sentences/)

[Marcel Duchamp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcel-duchamp/)

> [The basis for my own work during the years just before coming to America in 1915 was a desire to break up forms -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcel-duchamp/the-basis-for-my-own-work-during-the-years-just-before-coming-to/)

[Marcel Duchamp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcel-duchamp/)

> [The curious thing about that moustache and goatee is that when you look at the Mona Lisa it becomes a man. It is not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcel-duchamp/the-curious-thing-about-that-moustache-and-goatee-is-that-when-you/)

[Marcel Duchamp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcel-duchamp/)

> [I am afraid to end up being in need to sell canvases - in other words, to be a society painter.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcel-duchamp/i-am-afraid-to-end-up-being-in-need-to-sell-canvases-in-other-words/)

[Marcel Duchamp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcel-duchamp/)

> [In the midst of each epoch, I fully realize that a new epoch will dawn.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcel-duchamp/in-the-midst-of-each-epoch-i-fully-realize-that-a-new-epoch-will-dawn/)

[Marcel Duchamp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcel-duchamp/)

> [To all appearances the artist acts like a mediumistic being who, from the labyrinth beyond time and space, seeks his way out to a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcel-duchamp/to-all-appearances-the-artist-acts-like-a-mediumistic-being-who-from/)

[Marcel Duchamp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcel-duchamp/)

> [Words such as truth, art, veracity, or anything are stupid in themselves.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcel-duchamp/words-such-as-truth-art-veracity-or-anything-are-stupid-in-themselves/)

[Marcel Duchamp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcel-duchamp/)

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