The life of an artist is like the life of a monk, a lewd monk if you like, very Rabelaisian. It is… — Marcel Duchamp Art 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
“I force myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.” — Marcel Duchamp Art Copy Share Image
From a purely ethnological point of view, I was not a period-born Dada. — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
When you make a painting, even abstract, there is always a sort of necessary filling-in. — Marcel Duchamp Abstract 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 America Copy Share Image
When cubism began to take a social form, Metzinger was especially talked about. He explained cubism, while Picasso never explained anything. It… — Marcel Duchamp Artist 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 Art 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 Art Copy Share Image
I like living, breathing better than working... Each second, each breath is a work which is inscribed nowhere, which is neither visual… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
I don’t care about the word ‘art’ because it has been so discredited. So I want to get rid of it. There… — Marcel Duchamp Adoration Copy Share Image
Words are the tools of 'to be' - of expression. They are completely built on the fact that you 'are,' and in… — Marcel Duchamp Expression 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 Absence Copy Share Image
I have drawn people's attention to the fact that art is a mirage. A mirage, just like the oasis that appears in… — Marcel Duchamp Art 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 Art Copy Share Image
I became a librarian at the Sainte-Genevieve Library in Paris. I made this gesture to rid myself of a certain milieu, a… — Marcel Duchamp Attitude Copy Share Image
Since I found that one could make a case shadow from a three-dimensional thing, any object whatsoever - just as the projecting… — Marcel Duchamp Analogies Copy Share Image
One must pass through the network of influence. One is obligated to be influenced, and one accepts this influence very naturally. From… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
Painter after painter, since the beginning of the century, has tended toward abstraction. First, the Impressionists simplified the landscape in terms of… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
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 Art Copy Share Image
The great problem was the selection of the readymade. I needed to choose an object without it impressing me: that is to… — Marcel Duchamp Aesthetic Copy Share Image
Why are all the artists so dead-set on distorting? It seems to be a reaction against photography, but I'm not sure. — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
For me, the 'Three Stoppages' was a first gesture liberating me from the past. — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
