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 Read Quote
I shy away from the word ‘creation.’ In the ordinary, social meaning of the word – well, it’s very nice, but fundamentally, I don’t believe in the creative function of the artist. He’s a man like any other. Marcel Duchamp Read Quote
When you make a painting, even abstract, there is always a sort of necessary filling-in. Marcel Duchamp Read Quote
There was an incident, in 1912, which ‘gave me a turn,’ so to speak: when I brought the ‘Nude Descending a Staircase’ to the Independants, and they asked me to withdraw it before the opening. Marcel Duchamp Read Quote
I refused to accept anything, doubted everything. So, doubting everything, I had to find something that had not existed before, something I had not thought of before. Any idea that came to me, the thing would be to turn it around and try to see it with another set of senses. Marcel Duchamp Read Quote
Words are the tools of ‘to be’ – of expression. They are completely built on the fact that you ‘are,’ and in order to express it, you have built a little alphabet, and you make your words from it. Marcel Duchamp Read Quote
I really had no program or any established plan. I didn’t even ask myself if I should sell my paintings or not. Marcel Duchamp Read Quote
Distortion came first from the fauves, who, in turn, were under the strong influence of primitive art. Marcel Duchamp Read Quote
