Best quotes by Marcel Duchamp on Art

Checkout quotes by Marcel Duchamp on Art

• ‟ 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
  

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

  - Marcel Duchamp
  

• ‟ 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.

  - Marcel Duchamp
  

• ‟ Art is a habit-forming drug. Art has absolutely no existence as veracity, as truth. People always speak of it with this great, religious reverence, but why should it be so revered?

  - Marcel Duchamp
  

• ‟ 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
  

• ‟ 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
  

• ‟ Art is all a matter of personality.

  - Marcel Duchamp
  

• ‟ Art doesn't interest me. Only artists interest me.

  - Marcel Duchamp
  

• ‟ Distortion came first from the fauves, who, in turn, were under the strong influence of primitive art.

  - Marcel Duchamp
  

• ‟ Can works be made which are not 'of art'?

  - Marcel Duchamp
  

• ‟ If only America would realize that the art of Europe is finished - dead - and that America is the country of the art of the future, instead of trying to base everything she does on European traditions!

  - Marcel Duchamp