193 Quotes by Marcel Duchamp

Living is more a question of what one spends than what one makes.

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.

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

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

Since the tubes of paint used by the artist are manufactured and ready made products we must conclude that all the paintings in the world are 'readymades aided' and also works of assemblage.

I wanted to kill art for myself… …a new thought for that object.

In my day artists wanted to be outcasts, pariahs. Now they are all integrated into society

Since I found that one could make a case shadow from a three-dimensional thing, any object whatsoever - just as the projecting of the sun on the earth makes two dimensions - I thought that by simple intellectual analogy, the fourth dimension could project an object of three dimensions, or, to put it another way, any three-dimensional object, which we see dispassionately, is a projection of something four-dimensional, something we are not familiar with.

Three or four drops of height have nothing to do with savageness.