Marcel Duchamp best Attitude Quotes – “I became a librarian at the Sainte-Genevieve Library in Paris. I made this gesture to rid myself of a certain milieu, a certain attitude, to have a clean conscience, but also to make a living. I was twenty-five. I had been told that one must make a living, and I believed it.”
Marcel Duchamp best Attitude Quotes – “Dada was an extreme protest against the physical side of painting. It was a metaphysical attitude.”
Marcel Duchamp best Art Quotes – “I don’t believe in art. I believe in artists.”
Marcel Duchamp best Art Quotes – “The word ‘art’ interests me very much. If it comes from Sanskrit, as I’ve heard, it signifies ‘making.’ Now everyone makes something, and those who make things on a canvas with a frame, they’re called artists. Formerly, they were called craftsmen, a term I prefer. We’re all craftsmen, in civilian or military or artistic life.”
Marcel Duchamp best Art Quotes – “Art is all a matter of personality.”
Marcel Duchamp best Art Quotes – “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 best Art Quotes – “What art is, in reality, is this missing link, not the links which exist. It’s not what you see that is art; art is the gap.”
Marcel Duchamp best Art Quotes – “If your choice enters into it, then taste is involved – bad taste, good taste, uninteresting taste. Taste is the enemy of art, A-R-T.”