The basis for my own work during the years just before coming to America in 1915 was a desire to break up forms - to 'decompose' them much along the lines the cubists had done. But I wanted to go… — 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 of art is always based on the two poles of the onlooker and the maker, and the spark that comes from the bipolar action gives birth to something - like electricity. But the onlooker has the… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share
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
