Art Quote by Matthew Slotover

“Art is original. Marcel Duchamp was an artist when he pioneered Dadaism and installed a urinal in a museum. The second person to install…

— Seth Godin

“Duchamp thought it was for artists to decide what was and what was not a work of art. His position was that if an…

— Will Gompertz

“Duchamp had taken art to its logical conclusion. Every act of perception is art. So everything that perceives is an artist.”

— Chris F. Westbury

Art is often defined as a famous masterpiece in a gallery, and we are meant to visit the work and view it to appreciate…

— Ryuichi Sakamoto

It became like a symbolic thing, to be “an artist.” After Duchamp, I realized that being an artist is more about a lifestyle and…

— Ai Weiwei

I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.

— Walt Disney

All art is someone trying to tell you something.

— Caitlin Moran

Duchamp is known for calling a thing art, rather than making it. A lot of that is picked up in pop art, too.

— Claes Oldenburg

Found objects, chance creations, ready-mades (mass-produced items promoted into art objects, such as Duchamp's "Fountain"-urinal as sculpture) abolish the separation between art and life.…

— Charles Simic

Is photography an art? There is no point in trying to find out if it is an art. Art is old-fashioned. We need something…

— Man Ray

Art is about the messy and marvelous business of coming to your senses - and also, to the senses of the world.

— Michael Leunig

“It’s a urinal! It’s not even the original. The art is in the idea, not the object.”

— Will Gompertz