When cubism began to take a social form, Metzinger was especially talked about. He explained cubism, while Picasso never explained anything. It took a few years to see that not talking was better than talking too much. Marcel Duchamp Read Quote
I would have to think about it for two or three months before I decided to do something which would have meaning. And it would have to be more than just an impression or pleasure. I would need an objective, a meaning. That is the only thing that could help me. Marcel Duchamp Read Quote
The great problem was the selection of the readymade. I needed to choose an object without it impressing me: that is to say, without it providing any sort of aesthetic delectation. Moreover, I needed to reduce my own personal taste to absolute zero. Marcel Duchamp Read Quote
Artists of all times are like the gamblers of Monte Carlo, and this blind lottery allows some to succeed and ruins others. In my opinion, neither the winners nor the losers are worth worrying about. Marcel Duchamp Read Quote
I wanted to use my possibility to be an individual, and I suppose I have, no? Marcel Duchamp Read Quote
The ‘Glass’ is not my autobiography, nor is it self-expression. Far from it. Marcel Duchamp Read Quote
I am afraid to end up being in need to sell canvases – in other words, to be a society painter. Marcel Duchamp Read Quote
I haven’t been in the Louvre for twenty years. It doesn’t interest me because I have these doubts about the value of the judgments which decided that all these pictures should be presented to the Louvre instead of others which weren’t even considered. Marcel Duchamp Read Quote
