Marcel Duchamp Quotes

“André Breton was a lover of love in a world who believes in prostitution.”
― Marcel Duchamp

“Duchamp had taken art to its logical conclusion.
Every act of perception is art.
So everything that perceives is an artist.”
― Chris F. Westbury, The Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors, Even

“Yes, and Duchamp too, when he was asked what he thought about God, said, 'Let's not talk about that. That's man's stupidest idea.' — Nikša Gligo (1972)”
― Richard Kostelanetz, Conversing With Cage

“Instead I waited, which is what the Nude Descending a Staircase does, contrary to one's expectation and which is exactly why it has always provoked such a peculiar critical response.”
― Roberto Bolaño, The Savage Detectives

“Thanks to Marcel Duchamp, men get to appropriate modern art with decorative urine every time they pee.”
― Nolan Yuma