193 Quotes by Marcel Duchamp

It’s the viewer that makes the work.

Not all artists are Chess players, but 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.

I believe that the artist doesn’t know what he does. I attach even more importance to the spectator than to the artist.

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

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

They’re such supreme egos. It’s disgusting. I’ve never seen anything worse than an artist as a mind. It is very low, uninteresting as far as the relationship of men is concerned.

The American woman is the most intelligent woman in the world today – the only one that always knows what she wants, and therefore always gets it. Hasn’t she proved it by making her husband in his role as slave-banker look almost ridiculous in the eyes of the whole world? Not only has she intelligence but a wonderful beauty of line is hers, possessed by no other woman of any race at the present time.