Marcel Duchamp

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

The word 'art' interests me very much. If it comes from Sanskrit, as I've heard, it signifies 'making.' Now everyone makes something,…

— Marcel Duchamp

I've decided that art is a habit-forming drug. That's all it is, for the artist, for the collector, for anybody connected with…

— Marcel Duchamp

“I force myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.”

— Marcel Duchamp

I was interested in ideas, not in visual products. I wanted to put painting again in the service of the mind.

— Marcel Duchamp

If only America would realize that the art of Europe is finished - dead - and that America is the country of…

— Marcel Duchamp

I was poking fun at myself most of all.

— Marcel Duchamp

“There is no solution because there is no problem.”

— Marcel Duchamp

The entire world of art has reached such a low level, it has been commercialized to such a degree that art and…

— Marcel Duchamp

I would have to think about it for two or three months before I decided to do something which would have meaning.…

— Marcel Duchamp

Art has the lovely habit of ruining all artistic theories.

— Marcel Duchamp

“Since a three-dimensional object casts a two-dimensional shadow, we should be able to imagine the unknown four-dimensional object whose shadow we are.”

— Marcel Duchamp

I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.

— Marcel Duchamp

In chess, there are some extremely beautiful things in the domain of movement, but not in the visual domain. It's the imagining…

— Marcel Duchamp

In the 'Nude Descending a Staircase,' I wanted to create a static image of movement: movement is an abstraction, a deduction articulated…

— Marcel Duchamp

I think there is a great deal to the idea of not doing a thing, but that when you do a thing,…

— Marcel Duchamp

I haven't been in the Louvre for twenty years. It doesn't interest me because I have these doubts about the value of…

— Marcel Duchamp

A game of chess is a visual and plastic thing, and if it isn't geometric in the static sense of the word,…

— Marcel Duchamp

It is a matter of great indifference to me what criticism is printed in the papers and the magazines. I am simply…

— Marcel Duchamp

I came to feel an artist might use anything - a dot, a line, the most conventional or unconventional symbol - t…

— Marcel Duchamp

My art would be that of living: each moment, each breath is a work inscribed nowhere.

— Marcel Duchamp

The word 'art' interests me very much. If it comes from Sanskrit, as I've heard, it signifies 'making.

— Marcel Duchamp

I believe that a picture, a work of art, lives and dies just as we do.

— Marcel Duchamp

Can works be made which are not 'of art'?

— Marcel Duchamp

If a shadow is a two-dimensional projection of the three-dimensional world, then the three-dimensional world as we know it is the projection…

— Marcel Duchamp