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What am I? Do I know? I am a man: quite simply, a 'breather.'

Marcel, no more painting; go get a job.

I am against the word 'anti' because it's a little bit like 'atheist,' as compared to 'believer.' And an atheist is just as much of a religious man as the believer is.

From Marcel Duchamp

Man can never expect to start from scratch; he must start from ready-made things, like even his own mother and father.

From Marcel Duchamp

All painting, beginning with Impressionism, is antiscientific, even Seurat. I was interested in introducing the precise and exact aspect of science, which hadn't often been done, or at least hadn't been talked about very much.

From Marcel Duchamp

I like living, breathing better than working... Each second, each breath is a work which is inscribed nowhere, which is neither visual nor cerebral. It's a kind of constant euphoria.

From Marcel Duchamp

There does not exist a painter who knows himself or knows what he is doing.

From Marcel Duchamp

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.

From Marcel Duchamp

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

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Living is more a question of what one spends than what one makes.

From Marcel Duchamp

Marcel Duchamp

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