Quotes by : Marcel Duchamp

As soon as we start putting our thoughts into words and sentences everything gets distorted, language....

Humor and laughter - not necessarily derogatory derision - are my pet tools. This may come from my general....

The individual, man as a man, man as a brain, if you like, interests me more than what he makes, because....

To all appearances, the artist acts like a mediumistic being who, from the labyrinth beyond time and....

Dada was an extreme protest against the physical side of painting. It was a metaphysical attitude.

I became a librarian at the Sainte-Genevieve Library in Paris. I made this gesture to rid myself of a....

Art is not about itself but the attention we bring to it.

Rational intelligence is dangerous and leads to ratiocination. The painter is a medium who doesn't realize....

All this twaddle, the existence of God, atheism, determinism, liberation, societies, death, etc., are....

I like living, breathing better than working...my art is that of living. Each second, each breath is....