This concern which interests us more than anything else: the blurring of the distinction between art and life. — Marcel Duchamp Art Copy Share Image
In my day artists wanted to be outcasts, pariahs. Now they are all integrated into society — Marcel Duchamp Art Copy Share Image
I was interested in ideas, not in visual products. I wanted to put painting again in the service of the mind. — Marcel Duchamp Artist Copy Share Image
My art would be that of living: each moment, each breath is a work inscribed nowhere. — Marcel Duchamp Art Copy Share Image
I consider painting as a means of expression, not as a goal. — Marcel Duchamp Artist Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Chess players are madmen of a certain quality, the way the artist is supposed to be, and isn't, in general. — Marcel Duchamp Art Copy Share Image
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 Chess Copy Share Image
I happen to have been born a Cartesian. The French education is based on a sequence of strict logic. You carry it… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
“I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art - and much more. It cannot be commercialized.… — Marcel Duchamp Art Copy Share Image
My Ready-Mades have nothing to do with the 'objet trouve' because the so-called 'found object' is completely directed by personal taste. Personal… — Marcel Duchamp Beautiful Copy Share Image
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 Art Copy Share Image
Tradition is the great misleader because it's too easy to follow what has already been done - even though you may think… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
The artist performs only one part of the creative process. The onlooker completes it, and it is the onlooker who has the… — Marcel Duchamp Art Copy Share Image
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 Beautiful Copy Share Image
I would have to think about it for two or three months before I decided to do something which would have meaning.… — Marcel Duchamp Goals Copy Share Image
In the beginning, the cubists broke up form without even knowing they were doing it. Probably the compulsion to show multiple sides… — Marcel Duchamp Artist Copy Share Image
The Chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chessboard, express… — Marcel Duchamp Alphabet Copy Share Image
You know exactly what I think of photography. I would like to see it make people despise painting until something else will… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
In French, there is an old expression, la patte, meaning the artist's touch, his personal style, his 'paw'. I wanted to get… — Marcel Duchamp Art Copy Share Image
To all appearances, the artist acts like a mediumistic being who, from the labyrinth beyond time and space, seeks his way out… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
Man can never expect to start from scratch; he must start from ready-made things, like even his own mother and father. — Marcel Duchamp Father Copy Share Image
The curious thing about that moustache and goatee is that when you look at the Mona Lisa it becomes a man. It… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
What art is, in reality, is this missing link, not the links which exist. It's not what you see that is art;… — Marcel Duchamp Art Copy Share Image
My position is the lack of a position, but, of course, you can't even talk about it; the minute you talk, you… — Marcel Duchamp Game Copy Share Image
If your choice enters into it, then taste is involved - bad taste, good taste, uninteresting taste. Taste is the enemy of… — Marcel Duchamp Art Copy Share Image
I didn't abandon everything at a moment's notice - on the contrary. I returned to France from America, leaving the 'Large Glass'… — Marcel Duchamp America Copy Share Image
The individual, man as a man, man as a brain, if you like, interests me more than what he makes, because I've… — Marcel Duchamp Art Copy Share Image
The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
There was an incident, in 1912, which 'gave me a turn,' so to speak: when I brought the 'Nude Descending a Staircase'… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
It is a matter of great indifference to me what criticism is printed in the papers and the magazines. I am simply… — Marcel Duchamp Criticism Copy Share Image
I came to feel an artist might use anything - a dot, a line, the most conventional or unconventional symbol - t… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
“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 Shadow Copy Share Image
There is something like an explosion in the meaning of certain words: they have a greater value than their meaning in the… — Marcel Duchamp Language Copy Share Image
My idea was to chose an object that wouldn't attract me, either by its beauty or by its ugliness. To find a… — Marcel Duchamp Beauty Copy Share Image
In the last analysis, the artist may shout from all the rooftops that he is a genius; he will have to wait… — Marcel Duchamp Analysis Copy Share Image
All decisions in the artistic execution of the work rest with pure intuition and cannot be translated into a self-analysis. — Marcel Duchamp Analysis Copy Share Image
I thought to discourage aesthetics... I threw the bottlerack and the urinal in their faces and now they admire them for their… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
“I realized very soon the danger of repeating indiscriminately (forms of) expression... for the spectator even more than for the artist, art… — Marcel Duchamp Art Copy Share Image
