193 Quotes by Marcel Duchamp

Chess is a sport. A violent sport.

The life of an artist is like the life of a monk, a lewd monk if you like, very Rabelaisian. It is an ordination.

I don’t care about the word ‘art’ because it has been so discredited. So I want to get rid of it. There is an unnecessary adoration of ‘art’ today.

Unless a picture shocks, it is nothing.

It is the spectators who make the pictures.

This concern which interests us more than anything else: the blurring of the distinction between art and life.

It's true, of course, humor is very important in my life, as you know. That's the only reason for living, in fact.

My art would be that of living: each moment, each breath is a work inscribed nowhere.

The most interesting thing about artists is how they live