Quotes from Marcel Duchamp

What I have in mind is that art may be bad, good or indifferent, but, whatever adjective is used, we must call it art, and bad art is still art in the same way that a bad emotion is still an emotion.

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

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.

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.

The only thing that is not art is inattention

The individual, man as a man, man as a brain, if you like, interests me more than what he makes, because I've noticed that most artists only repeat themselves.

Art has absolutely no existence as veracity, as truth.

I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art - and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position.

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

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.

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

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

My idea was to chose an object that wouldn't attract me, either by its beauty or by its ugliness. To find a point of indifference in my looking at it, you see

From a purely ethnological point of view, I was not a period-born Dada.

When the vision of the 'Nude' flashed upon me, I knew that it would break forever the enslaving chains of Naturalism.

The Chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chessboard, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem

Besides, it's always other people who die.

I have come to the personal conclusion that while all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.

I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art - and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position.

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

Le silence, c'est la meilleure production qu'on puisse faire, parce qu'il se propage : on ne le signe pas et tout le monde en profite.

Traditionally, artists suffered for their art, now it's the audience.

André Breton was a lover of love in a world who believes in prostitution.