193 Quotes by Marcel Duchamp

In New York in 1915 I bought at a hardware store a snow shovel on which I wrote in advance of the broken arm .

Humor is the only reason to live.

You know exactly what I think of photography. I would like to see it make people despise painting until something else will make photography unbearable. (In a letter to Alfred Stieglitz)

There is no solution, for there is no problem.

The curious thing about that moustache and goatee is that when you look at the Mona Lisa it becomes a man. It is not a woman disguised as a man; it is a real man, and that was my discovery, without realising it at the time.

In the creative act, the artist goes from intention to realization through a chain of totally subjective reactions.

Can one make works which are not works of 'art'?

I was poking fun at myself most of all.

I feel shame, not for the wrong things I have done, but for the right things that I have failed to do.