As soon as we start putting our thoughts into words and sentences everything gets distorted, language is just no damn good—I use it because I have to, but I don’t put any trust in it. We never understand each other.

The curious thing about that moustache and goatee is that when you look at the Mona Lisa it becomes a man. It is not a woman disguised as a man; it is a real man, and that was my discovery, without realising it at the time.

Since the tubes of paint used by the artist are manufactured and ready made products we must conclude that all the paintings in the world are 'readymades aided' and also works of assemblage.

Anything is art if an artist says it is.

I wanted to kill art for myself.. ..a new thought for that object.

All decisions in the artistic execution of the work rest with pure intuition and cannot be translated into a self-analysis.

Among our articles of lazy hardware, I recommend the faucet that stops dripping when no one is listening to it.