Marcel Duchamp

I like living, breathing better than working.

My art is that of living. Every second, every breath is a work which is inscribed nowhere, which is neither visual nor cerebral. It's a sort of constant euphoria.

I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.

There is no solution because there is no problem.

I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.

The great artist of tomorrow will go underground.

I was interested in ideas, not merely in visual products.

I'm a breather, not a worker.

The public is the great unknowing.

I don't think that art has to be beautiful. It has to be interesting.

I have never made any distinction between the two, my life and my art.

I don't want to make something that is beautiful. I don't want to make something that is 'art.' I want to make something that is interesting.

The individual, the human being, is a very sad affair. He dies. He is born. He lives. He dies. That's all.

I had to get rid of the idea of art, you see, because it was too much of a burden.

A photograph is not a work of art.

I believe in the complete freedom of the individual.

I am a chess player. I am not an artist.

My painting is a non-painting.

The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act.

To be an artist, you have to be a little crazy.