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 carelotmoney Change image and share on social
Man can never expect to start from scratch; he must start from ready-made things, like even his own mother and father. Marcel Duchamp expectfathermake Change image and share on social
'Art or anti-art?' was the question I asked when I returned from Munich in 1912 and decided to abandon pure painting or painting for its own sake. I thought of introducing elements alien to painting as the only way out of a pictorial and chromatic dead end. Marcel Duchamp abandonalienanti share on social
I became a librarian at the Sainte-Genevieve Library in Paris. I made this gesture to rid myself of a certain milieu, a certain attitude, to have a clean conscience, but also to make a living. I was twenty-five. I had been told that one must make a living, and I believed it. Marcel Duchamp attitudebelieveclean share on social
In France, in Europe, the young artists of any generation always act as grandsons of some great man - Poussin, for example, or Victor Hugo. They can't help it. Even if they don't believe in that, it gets in their system. And so when they come to produce something of their own, the tradition is nearly indestructible. Marcel Duchamp actartisteurope share on social
Rational intelligence is dangerous and leads to ratiocination. The painter is a medium who doesn't realize what he is doing. No translation can express the mystery of sensibility, a word, still unreliable, which is nevertheless the basis of painting or poetry, like a kind of alchemy. Marcel Duchamp alchemybasisdangerous share on social
When the vision of the 'Nude' flashed upon me, I knew that it would break forever the enslaving chains of Naturalism. Marcel Duchamp breakchainenslave Change image and share on social
When I put a bicycle wheel on a stool, the fork down, there was no idea of a 'ready-made' or anything else. It was just a distraction. I didn't have any special reason to do it, or any intention of showing it or describing anything. Marcel Duchamp bicycledescribedistraction share on social
Words are the tools of 'to be' - of expression. They are completely built on the fact that you 'are,' and in order to express it, you have built a little alphabet, and you make your words from it. Marcel Duchamp alphabetbuildcompletely 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