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 artbadchoice Change image and share on social
Art doesn't interest me. Only artists interest me. Marcel Duchamp artartistinterest Change image and share on social
Things were sort of Bohemian in Montmartre - one lived, one painted, one was a painter - all that doesn't mean anything, fundamentally. Marcel Duchamp bohemianfundamentallylive Change image and share on social
I don't believe in art. I believe in artists. Marcel Duchamp artartist Change image and share on social
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 artistconventionaldot Change image and share on social
The last hundred years have been retinal; even the cubists were. The surrealists tried to free themselves, and earlier so had the dadaists, but unfortunately, these latter were nihilists and didn't produce enough to prove their point, which, by the way, they didn't have to prove - according to their theory. Marcel Duchamp cubistdadaistearly share on social
I am against the word 'anti' because it's a little bit like 'atheist,' as compared to 'believer.' And an atheist is just as much of a religious man as the believer is. Marcel Duchamp antiatheistbeliever Change image and share on social
I never finished the 'Large Glass' because, after working on it for eight years, I probably got interested in something else; also, I was tired. It may be that, subconsciously, I never intended to finish it because the word 'finish' implies an acceptance of traditional methods and all the paraphernalia that accompany them. Marcel Duchamp acceptanceaccompanyfinish share on social
From a purely ethnological point of view, I was not a period-born Dada. Marcel Duchamp beardadaethnological Change image and share on social
A game of chess is a visual and plastic thing, and if it isn't geometric in the static sense of the word, it is mechanical, since it moves. It's a drawing; it's a mechanical reality. Marcel Duchamp chessdrawgame Change image and share on social