Marcel Duchamp Quotes

Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another.

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

In my day artists wanted to be outcasts, pariahs. Now they are all integrated into society

In New York in 1915 I bought at a hardware store a snow shovel on which I wrote in advance of the broken arm .

Three or four drops of height have nothing to do with savageness.

There is no solution, for there is no problem.

I was poking fun at myself most of all.

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

You know exactly what I think of photography. I would like to see it make people despise painting until something else will make photography unbearable. (In a letter to Alfred Stieglitz)

Can one make works which are not works of 'art'?

Chess players are madmen of a certain quality, the way the artist is supposed to be, and isn't, in general.

Among our articles of lazy hardware, I recommend the faucet that stops dripping when no one is listening to it.

An abstract painting need in 50 years by no means look "abstract" any longer.

I wanted to kill art for myself.. ..a new thought for that object.

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

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

Humor and laughter - not necessarily derogatory derision - are my pet tools. This may come from my general philosophy of never taking the world too seriously - for fear of dying of boredom.

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

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