Marcel Duchamp Quotes


"I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste."
- Marcel Duchamp
(Related: Order, Taste)

"Living is more a question of what one spends than what one makes."
- Marcel Duchamp
(Related: Living, Question)

"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
(Related: Artists, Man)

"I don't believe in art. I believe in artists."
- Marcel Duchamp
(Related: Art, Artists)

"I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products."
- Marcel Duchamp
(Related: Ideas)

"I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art - and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position."
- Marcel Duchamp
(Related: Art, Beauty, Chess)