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What art is, in reality, is this missing link, not the links which exist. It's not what you see that is art; art is the gap.
— Marcel Duchamp
I feel shame, not for the wrong things I have done, but for the right things that I have failed to do.
— Marcel Duchamp
Art doesn't interest me. Only artists interest me.
— Marcel Duchamp
Duchamp had taken art to its logical conclusion. Every act of perception is art.
So everything that perceives is an artist. — Chris F. Westbury
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
Man can never expect to start from scratch; he must start from ready-made things, like even his own mother and father.
— Marcel Duchamp
It's the viewer that makes the work.
— Marcel Duchamp
I thought to discourage aesthetics ... I threw the bottlerack and the urinal in their faces and now they admire them for their aesthetic beauty.
— Marcel Duchamp
Unless a picture shocks, it is nothing.
— Marcel Duchamp
Art has the lovely habit of ruining all artistic theories.
— Marcel Duchamp
Art is all a matter of personality.
— Marcel Duchamp
What would I do with money? I have enough for my needs. I don't want any more. If I had a lot, I would have to care for it, worry about it.
— Marcel Duchamp
I am afraid to end up being in need to sell canvases - in other words, to be a society painter.
— Marcel Duchamp
Art is like a shipwreck; it's every man for himself.
— Marcel Duchamp
The artist performs only one part of the creative process. The onlooker completes it, and it is the onlooker who has the last word.
— Marcel Duchamp
Art is not about itself but the attention we bring to it.
— Marcel Duchamp
Marcel, no more painting; go get a job.
— Marcel Duchamp
Chess players are madmen of a certain quality, the way the artist is supposed to be, and isn't, in general.
— Marcel Duchamp
Aesthetic delectation is the danger to be avoided.
— Marcel Duchamp
The only thing that is not art is inattention
— Marcel Duchamp
This concern which interests us more than anything else: the blurring of the distinction between art and life.
— Marcel Duchamp
Painting is a language of its own. You cannot interpret one form of expression with another form of expression.
— Marcel Duchamp
Distortion came first from the fauves, who, in turn, were under the strong influence of primitive art.
— Marcel Duchamp
It is the spectators who make the pictures.
— Marcel Duchamp
I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products.
— Marcel Duchamp
Artmaking is making the invisible, visible.
— Marcel Duchamp
In one sense, (Duchamp's) "The Large Glass" is a glimpse into Hell; a peculiarly modernist Hell of repetition and loneliness.
— Robert Hughes
A painting that doesn't shock isn't worth painting.
— Marcel Duchamp
You cannot define electricity. The same can be said of art. It is a kind of inner current in a human being, or something which needs no definition.
— Marcel Duchamp
Appropriation was the language of my generation in many ways. It came out of Duchamp, Warhol, Johns, Lichtenstein.
— Deborah Kass
In the creative act, the artist goes from intention to realization through a chain of totally subjective reactions.
— Marcel Duchamp
One is a painter because one wants so-called freedom; one doesn't want to go to the office every morning.
— Marcel Duchamp
Three or four drops of height have nothing to do with savageness.
— Marcel Duchamp
Alchemy is a kind of philosophy: a kind of thinking that leads to a way of understanding.
— Marcel Duchamp
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 it.
— Marcel Duchamp
What am I? Do I know? I am a man: quite simply, a 'breather.'
— Marcel Duchamp
All decisions in the artistic execution of the work rest with pure intuition and cannot be translated into a self-analysis.
— Marcel Duchamp
I happen to have been born a Cartesian. The French education is based on a sequence of strict logic. You carry it with you.
— Marcel Duchamp
Dada was an extreme protest against the physical side of painting. It was a metaphysical attitude.
— Marcel Duchamp
Among our articles of lazy hardware, I recommend the faucet that stops dripping when no one is listening to it.
— Marcel Duchamp
In my day artists wanted to be outcasts, pariahs. Now they are all integrated into society
— Marcel Duchamp
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
Art you can flush down the loo means nothing to me, even were the loo to be selected by Marcel Duchamp
— Andrew O'Hagan
The most interesting thing about artists is how they live
— Marcel Duchamp
Chess is a sport. A violent sport.
— Marcel Duchamp
To all appearances, the artist acts like a mediumistic being who, from the labyrinth beyond time and space, seeks his way out to a clearing.
— Marcel Duchamp
Anything is art if an artist says it is.
— Marcel Duchamp
Can works be made which are not 'of art'?
— Marcel Duchamp
Art has absolutely no existence as veracity, as truth.
— Marcel Duchamp
When the vision of the 'Nude' flashed upon me, I knew that it would break forever the enslaving chains of Naturalism.
— Marcel Duchamp
My stay in Munich was the scene of my complete liberation.
— Marcel Duchamp
If your choice enters into it, then taste is involved - bad taste, good taste, uninteresting taste. Taste is the enemy of art, A-R-T.
— Marcel Duchamp
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Destruction is also creation.
— Marcel Duchamp
Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another.
— Marcel Duchamp
I was interested in ideas, not in visual products. I wanted to put painting again in the service of the mind.
— Marcel Duchamp
I don't know if you've noticed it. But Duchamp was magnificent.
— Robert Barnes
In New York in 1915 I bought at a hardware store a snow shovel on which I wrote in advance of the broken arm .
— Marcel Duchamp
I'm nothing else but an artist, I'm sure, and delighted to be.
— Marcel Duchamp
All art (after Duchamp) is conceptual (in nature) because art only exists conceptually.
— Joseph Kosuth
I really had no program or any established plan. I didn't even ask myself if I should sell my paintings or not.
— Marcel Duchamp
No, the thing to do is try to make a painting that will be alive in your own lifetime.
— Marcel Duchamp
I was highly attracted to chess for forty or forty-five years; then, little by little, my enthusiasm lessened.
— Marcel Duchamp
Humor is the only reason to live.
— Marcel Duchamp
I was poking fun at myself most of all.
— Marcel Duchamp
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
Art should grasp the mind the way the vagina grasps the penis-Marcel Duchamp
— Alice Goldfarb Marquis
I consider painting as a means of expression, not as a goal.
— Marcel Duchamp
I'm not at all sure that the concept of the readymade isn't the most important single idea to come out of my work.
— Marcel Duchamp
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
I didn't abandon everything at a moment's notice - on the contrary. I returned to France from America, leaving the 'Large Glass' unfinished.
— Marcel Duchamp
I came to feel an artist might use anything - a dot, a line, the most conventional or unconventional symbol - t say what he wanted to say.
— Marcel Duchamp
The 'value' of particular artists after Duchamp can be weighed according to how much they questioned the nature of art.
— Joseph Kosuth
Can one make works which are not works of 'art'?
— Marcel Duchamp
In the last analysis, the artist may shout from all the rooftops that he is a genius; he will have to wait for the verdict of posterity.
— Marcel Duchamp
Things were sort of Bohemian in Montmartre - one lived, one painted, one was a painter - all that doesn't mean anything, fundamentally.
— Marcel Duchamp
I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.
— Marcel Duchamp
The life of an artist is like the life of a monk, a lewd monk if you like, very Rabelaisian. It is an ordination.
— Marcel Duchamp
There's no solution, because there's no problem
— Marcel Duchamp
Living is more a question of what one spends than what one makes.
— Marcel Duchamp
There is no solution, for there is no problem.
— Marcel Duchamp
Someday my prince will come," she lamented softly, "too fast.
— Melinda DuChamp
My art would be that of living: each moment, each breath is a work inscribed nowhere.
— Marcel Duchamp
There is something like an explosion in the meaning of certain words: they have a greater value than their meaning in the dictionary.
— Marcel Duchamp
My position is the lack of a position, but, of course, you can't even talk about it; the minute you talk, you spoil the whole game.
— Marcel Duchamp
Do unto others as they wish, but with imagination.
— Marcel Duchamp