There does not exist a painter who knows himself or knows what he is doing. — Marcel Duchamp Artist Copy Share Image
Alchemy is a kind of philosophy: a kind of thinking that leads to a way of understanding. — Marcel Duchamp Alchemy Copy Share Image
I wanted to kill art for myself… …a new thought for that object. — Marcel Duchamp Art Copy Share Image
In New York in 1915 I bought at a hardware store a snow shovel on which I wrote in advance of the… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
I believe that a picture, a work of art, lives and dies just as we do. — Marcel Duchamp Art Copy Share Image
An abstract painting need in 50 years by no means look "abstract" any longer. — Marcel Duchamp Abstract Copy Share Image
It's true, of course, humor is very important in my life, as you know. That's the only reason for living, in fact. — Marcel Duchamp Comedy Copy Share Image
The curious thing about the Ready-Made is that I've never been able to arrive at a definition or explanation that fully satisfies… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
“You get my idea. Nothing of "artistic" literature about it, just straight medicine, a universal panacea, a fetish in a sense: if… — Marcel Duchamp Art Copy Share Image
All painting, beginning with Impressionism, is antiscientific, even Seurat. I was interested in introducing the precise and exact aspect of science, which… — Marcel Duchamp Artist Copy Share Image
Things were sort of Bohemian in Montmartre - one lived, one painted, one was a painter - all that doesn't mean anything,… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
You cannot define electricity. The same can be said of art. It is a kind of inner current in a human being,… — Marcel Duchamp Art Copy Share Image
Humor and laughter - not necessarily derogatory derision - are my pet tools. This may come from my general philosophy of never… — Marcel Duchamp Comedy Copy Share Image
The entire world of art has reached such a low level, it has been commercialized to such a degree that art and… — Marcel Duchamp Art Copy Share Image
What I have in mind is that art may be bad, good or indifferent, but, whatever adjective is used, we must call… — 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… — Marcel Duchamp Artist Copy Share Image
All this twaddle, the existence of God, atheism, determinism, liberation, societies, death, etc., are pieces of a chess game called language, and… — Marcel Duchamp Amusing 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… — Marcel Duchamp America Copy Share Image
One does not contemplate it like a picture. The idea of contemplation disappears completely. Simply take note that it's a bottle rack,… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
'Art or anti-art?' was the question I asked when I returned from Munich in 1912 and decided to abandon pure painting or… — Marcel Duchamp Alien Copy Share Image
I never finished the 'Large Glass' because, after working on it for eight years, I probably got interested in something else; also,… — Marcel Duchamp Acceptance 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 American woman Copy Share Image
I refused to accept anything, doubted everything. So, doubting everything, I had to find something that had not existed before, something I… — 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 Artist Copy Share Image
Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another. — Marcel Duchamp Chess Copy Share Image
In the midst of each epoch, I fully realize that a new epoch will dawn. — Marcel Duchamp Dawn Copy Share Image
I wanted to use my possibility to be an individual, and I suppose I have, no? — Marcel Duchamp Identity Copy Share Image
“André Breton was a lover of love in a world who believes in prostitution.” — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
While all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists. — Marcel Duchamp Art Copy Share Image
I feel shame, not for the wrong things I have done, but for the right things that I have failed to do. — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
Painting is a language of its own. You cannot interpret one form of expression with another form of expression. — Marcel Duchamp Artist Copy Share Image
The 'Glass' is not my autobiography, nor is it self-expression. Far from it. — Marcel Duchamp Autobiography Copy Share Image
I was highly attracted to chess for forty or forty-five years; then, little by little, my enthusiasm lessened. — Marcel Duchamp Chess Copy Share Image
I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste. — Marcel Duchamp Art Copy Share Image
Among our articles of lazy hardware, I recommend the faucet that stops dripping when no one is listening to it. — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
Words such as truth, art, veracity, or anything are stupid in themselves. — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
Not all artists are Chess players, but all Chess players are artists — Marcel Duchamp Art Copy Share Image
Everything important that I have done can be put into a little suitcase. — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
