193 Quotes by Marcel Duchamp

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

All this twaddle, the existence of God, atheism, determinism, liberation, societies, death, etc., are pieces of a chess game called language, and they are amusing only if one does not preoccupy oneself with 'winning or losing this game of chess.

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

As soon as we start putting our thoughts into words and sentences everything gets distorted, language is just no damn good—I use it because I have to, but I don’t put any trust in it. We never understand each other.

Do unto others as they wish, but with imagination.

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

Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another.

I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products.

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.