193 Quotes by Marcel Duchamp

I think there is a great deal to the idea of not doing a thing, but that when you do a thing, you don’t do it in five minutes or in five hours, but in five years.

I have drawn people’s attention to the fact that art is a mirage. A mirage, just like the oasis that appears in the desert. It is very beautiful, until the moment when you die of thirst, obviously. But we do not die of thirst in the field of art. The mirage has substance.

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.

D’ailleurs c’est toujours les autres qui meurent.

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.

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

The only thing that is not art is inattention.

The most interesting thing about artists is how they live.

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