While all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.

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

I'm not at all sure that the concept of the readymade isn't the most important single idea to come out of my work.

I don’t care about the word ‘art’ because it has been so discredited. So I want to get rid of it. There is an unnecessary adoration of ‘art’ today.

Possible reality [is obtained] by slightly bending physical and chemical laws.

My idea was to chose an object that wouldn't attract me, either by its beauty or by its ugliness. To find a point of indifference in my looking at it, you see

All this twaddle, the existence of God, atheism, determinism, liberation, societies, death, etc., are pieces of a chess game called language, and they are amusing only if one does not preoccupy oneself with 'winning or losing this game of chess.