A game of chess is a visual and plastic thing, and if it isn’t geometric in the static sense of the word, it is mechanical, since it moves. It’s a drawing; it’s a mechanical reality. Marcel Duchamp Read Quote
In chess, there are some extremely beautiful things in the domain of movement, but not in the visual domain. It’s the imagining of the movement or of the gesture that makes the beauty in this case. Marcel Duchamp Read Quote
I was highly attracted to chess for forty or forty-five years; then, little by little, my enthusiasm lessened. Marcel Duchamp Read Quote
The danger is in pleasing an immediate public: the immediate public that comes around you and takes you in and accepts you and gives you success and everything. Instead of that, you should wait for fifty years or a hundred years for your true public. That is the only public that interests me. Marcel Duchamp Read Quote
Painting is a language of its own. You cannot interpret one form of expression with another form of expression. Marcel Duchamp Read Quote
My position is the lack of a position, but, of course, you can’t even talk about it; the minute you talk, you spoil the whole game. Marcel Duchamp Read Quote
Why are all the artists so dead-set on distorting? It seems to be a reaction against photography, but I’m not sure. Marcel Duchamp Read Quote
Painter after painter, since the beginning of the century, has tended toward abstraction. First, the Impressionists simplified the landscape in terms of color, and then the Fauves simplified it again by adding distortion, which, for some reason, is a characteristic of our century. Marcel Duchamp Read Quote
I am against the word ‘anti’ because it’s a little bit like ‘atheist,’ as compared to ‘believer.’ And an atheist is just as much of a religious man as the believer is. Marcel Duchamp Read Quote
