Marcel Duchamp

I consider myself a non-artist.

I think that art is a game.

I don't want to make something that is beautiful. I want to make something that is interesting.

I wanted to put painting at the service of the mind.

The eye is a very unreliable instrument.

I have always been against the idea of the 'masterpiece'.

I believe in the complete anonymity of the artist.

I am not interested in making art for the sake of art.

I wanted to change my name, and I did. I changed it to Rrose Sélavy.

The spectator makes the picture.

I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art—and much more.

I was interested in ideas—not merely in visual products. I wanted to put painting once again at the service of the mind.

The individual, the human being, is a very sad, small, limited thing.

I have never made a painting that was not a joke.

There is no such thing as a copy. You never copy the same thing twice.

The future of art is a question mark.

I like silence. I like when people don't talk.

My art is to live, to breathe, to go from one place to another. How can you expect me to do anything else?

Art is a habit. It is a drug.

I believe that art is the only activity of man that is not a lie.