All Marcel Duchamp Quotes
- The life of an artist is like the life of a monk, a lewd monk if you like, very Rabelaisian. It is an ordination. Artist
- All decisions in the artistic execution of the work rest with pure intuition and cannot be translated into a self-analysis. All
- Art has the lovely habit of ruining all artistic theories. All
- Chess is a sport. A violent sport. Chess
- Not all artists are Chess players, but all Chess players are artists All
- The Chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chessboard, express their beauty abstractly,… Abstractly
- 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 I… Any
- It's true, of course, humor is very important in my life, as you know. That's the only reason for living, in fact. Course
- To all appearances, the artist acts like a mediumistic being who, from the labyrinth beyond time and space, seeks his way out to a clearing.… Acts
- Since the tubes of paint used by the artist are manufactured and ready made products we must conclude that all the paintings in the world… Aided
- I don’t care about the word ‘art’ because it has been so discredited. So I want to get rid of it. There is an unnecessary… Adoration
- 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 it. All
- Three or four drops of height have nothing to do with savageness. Drops
- Among our articles of lazy hardware, I recommend the faucet that stops dripping when no one is listening to it. Among
- 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. I for my… Able
- You cannot define electricity. The same can be said of art. It is a kind of inner current in a human being, or something which… Art
- Chess players are madmen of a certain quality, the way the artist is supposed to be, and isn't, in general. Artist
- I wanted to kill art for myself… …a new thought for that object. Art
- I think there is a great deal to the idea of not doing a thing, but that when you do a thing, you don't do… Deal
- No, the thing to do is try to make a painting that will be alive in your own lifetime. Alive
- I was poking fun at myself most of all. All
- An abstract painting need in 50 years by no means look "abstract" any longer. Abstract
- Unless a picture shocks, it is nothing. Funny
- In my day artists wanted to be outcasts, pariahs. Now they are all integrated into society All
- I was interested in ideas, not in visual products. I wanted to put painting again in the service of the mind. Ideas