Marcel Duchamp Quotes

It's not what you see that is art art is the gap.

I like living, breathing better than working...my art is that of living. Each second, each breath is...

The word 'art' interests me very much. If it comes from Sanskrit, as I've heard, it signifies 'makin...

As soon as we start putting our thoughts into words and sentences everything gets distorted, languag...

I became a librarian at the Sainte-Genevieve Library in Paris. I made this gesture to rid myself of ...

The individual, man as a man, man as a brain, if you like, interests me more than what he makes, bec...

Possible reality [is obtained] by slightly bending physical and chemical laws.

All in all, the creative act is not performed by the artist alone.. the spectator brings the work in...

I force myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.

One is a painter because one wants so-called freedom one doesn't want to go to the office every morn...

Rational intelligence is dangerous and leads to ratiocination. The painter is a medium who doesn't r...

Tradition is the great misleader because it's too easy to follow what has already been done - even t...

To all appearances, the artist acts like a mediumistic being who, from the labyrinth beyond time and...

I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art - and much more. It cannot be commerciali...

Art is not about itself but the attention we bring to it.

Dada was an extreme protest against the physical side of painting. It was a metaphysical attitude.

All this twaddle, the existence of God, atheism, determinism, liberation, societies, death, etc., ar...

I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.

What art is, in reality, is this missing link, not the links which exist. It's not what you see that...

I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.

Humor and laughter - not necessarily derogatory derision - are my pet tools. This may come from my g...