Since a three-dimensional object casts a two-dimensional shadow, we should be able to imagine the unknown four-dimensional object whose shadow we are. I for my part am fascinated by the search for a one-dimensional object that casts no shadow at all.

Marcel Duchamp


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I realized very soon the danger of repeating indiscriminately (forms of) expression... for the spectator even more than for the artist, art is a habit forming drug and I wanted to protect my (art) against such contamination.

Marcel Duchamp


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Since the tubes of paint used by the artist are manufactured and ready made products we must conclude that all the paintings in the world are 'readymades aided' and also works of assemblage.

Marcel Duchamp


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You get my idea. Nothing of "artistic" literature about it, just straight medicine, a universal panacea, a fetish in a sense: if you have a toothache go to your dentist and ask him if he is Dada.

Marcel Duchamp


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The most interesting thing about artists is how they live

Marcel Duchamp

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The individual, man as a man, man as a brain, if you like, interests me more than what he makes, because I've noticed that most artists only repeat themselves.

Marcel Duchamp

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I feel shame, not for the wrong things I have done, but for the right things that I have failed to do.

Marcel Duchamp


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There is no solution because there is no problem.

Marcel Duchamp


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While all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.

Marcel Duchamp


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