Quotes by : Marcel Duchamp

It's not what you see that is art art is the gap.

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....

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

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

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....

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

Possible reality [is obtained] by slightly bending physical and chemical laws.

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