I like living, breathing better than working...my art is that of living. Each second, each breath is a work which is inscribed nowhere, which is neither visual nor cerebral, it's a sort of constant euphoria.

Marcel Duchamp

Tags: life art happiness



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All in all, the creative act is not performed by the artist alone.. the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act.

Marcel Duchamp

Tags: art artist creative-act



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To all appearances, the artist acts like a mediumistic being who, from the labyrinth beyond time and space, seeks his way out to a clearing.

Marcel Duchamp

Tags: art dada



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Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Marcel Duchamp


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

Marcel Duchamp

Tags: art artist surrealism dadaism



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Destruction is also creation.

Marcel Duchamp


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Three or four drops of height have nothing to do with savageness.

Marcel Duchamp


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My idea was to chose an object that wouldn't attract me, either by its beauty or by its ugliness. To find a point of indifference in my looking at it, you see

Marcel Duchamp


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As soon as we start putting our thoughts into words and sentences everything gets distorted, language is just no damn good—I use it because I have to, but I don’t put any trust in it. We never understand each other.

Marcel Duchamp

Tags: language understanding misunderstanding



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Among our articles of lazy hardware, I recommend the faucet that stops dripping when no one is listening to it.

Marcel Duchamp

Tags: humor



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