Quotes by : Marcel Duchamp

One is a painter because one wants so-called freedom one doesn't want to go to the office every morning.....

All in all, the creative act is not performed by the artist alone.. the spectator brings the work in....

I force myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.

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

Tradition is the great misleader because it's too easy to follow what has already been done - even though....

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.

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....

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