Marcel Duchamp

I have always tried to avoid being labeled.

The more you know, the less you believe.

I am not interested in art. I am interested in ideas.

The great work of art is the one that is never finished.

I don't think that art has anything to do with taste. Art is a way of life.

I am a verb, not a noun.

There is no such thing as a work of art that is finished. It is only unfinished.

I have never been interested in art for art's sake.

The individual, the human being, is a very sad affair.

I believe in the complete freedom of man.

My art is to live, to breathe, to amuse myself, to make friends, to have a good time. No, I don't work.

I have drawn a great deal. I have drawn a great deal in my life. I have drawn a great deal in my mind.

I was never interested in painting pictures. I was interested in the idea of painting.

I suppose you could say that I am a kind of anarchist.

I do not believe in art, I believe in the individual.

I have never been interested in art as a commodity.

I was always a little bit ahead of my time.

I don't think there is a solution to the problem of life.

I am not interested in what is beautiful or ugly. I am interested in what is true.

I have never done a painting that was consciously beautiful.