I'm not at all sure that the concept of the readymade isn't the most important single idea to come out of my… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
I was interested in ideas, not in visual products. I wanted to put painting again in the service of the mind. — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
I think there is a great deal to the idea of not doing a thing, but that when you do a thing,… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
It is a matter of great indifference to me what criticism is printed in the papers and the magazines. I am simply… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
I was interested in ideas, not merely visual products. I wanted to put painting once again at the service of the mind. — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
My idea was to chose an object that wouldn't attract me, either by its beauty or by its ugliness. To find a… — 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
