All Marcel Duchamp Quotes
- 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
- Art has absolutely no existence as veracity, as truth. Absolutely
- I believe that the artist doesn't know what he does. I attach even more importance to the spectator than to the artist. Artist
- Since I found that one could make a case shadow from a three-dimensional thing, any object whatsoever - just as the projecting of the sun… Analogies
- I thought to discourage aesthetics... I threw the bottlerack and the urinal in their faces and now they admire them for their aesthetic beauty. Admire
- In the creative act, the artist goes from intention to realization through a chain of totally subjective reactions. Act
- Aesthetic delectation is the danger to be avoided. Aesthetic
- I consider painting as a means of expression, not as a goal. Consider
- It is the spectators who make the pictures. Funny
- In New York in 1915 I bought at a hardware store a snow shovel on which I wrote in advance of the broken arm . Advance
- The word 'art' interests me very much. If it comes from Sanskrit, as I've heard, it signifies 'making. Art
- I don't believe in art. I believe in artists. Art
- I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste. Art
- I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products. Creativity
- Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another. Chess
- Living is more a question of what one spends than what one makes. Funny