Marcel Duchamp

I don't think there is a solution. I don't think there is a problem.

I hate the word 'art.'

I am not a painter, I am a chess player.

I believe in the use of the brain. I don't believe in the use of the hand.

The only works of art that America has given are her plumbing and her bridges.

I have never been interested in making beautiful things.

I don't want to define anything.

It's not what you see that matters, it's what you think.

My mind is more on the game of chess than on painting.

I consider painting as a means to an end, not an end in itself.

I wanted to get away from the physical aspect of painting. I was more interested in the ideas.

I have always been a non-conformist.

Art is a habit-forming drug.

The artist is a mediumistic being who, from the labyrinth beyond time and space, seeks his way to a clearing.

I like silence better than music.

I have never believed in the truth of painting.

I believe in the indifference of the viewer.

The choice of the Readymade is always based on visual indifference and, at the same time, on the total absence of good or bad taste.

I don't think that art is something that you can define.

I was much more interested in the idea of making something that had no form.