It is curious to note how fragile the memory is, even for the important times in one's life. This is, moreover, what… — 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
I didn't abandon everything at a moment's notice - on the contrary. I returned to France from America, leaving the 'Large Glass'… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
“Let us consider two important factors, the two poles of the creation of art: the artist on one hand, and on the… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
Artists of all times are like the gamblers of Monte Carlo, and this blind lottery allows some to succeed and ruins others.… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
If only America would realize that the art of Europe is finished - dead - and that America is the country of… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
You have to approach something with indifference, as if you had no aesthetic emotion. The choice of readymades is always based on… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
For me, the 'Three Stoppages' was a first gesture liberating me from the past. — 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
“The American woman is the most intelligent woman in the world today - the only one that always knows what she wants,… — 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
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
