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

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.

Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another.

I feel shame, not for the wrong things I have done, but for the right things that I have failed to do.

I believe that the artist doesn't know what he does. I attach even more importance to the spectator than to the artist.

No, the thing to do is try to make a painting that will be alive in your own lifetime.

I think there is a great deal to the idea of not doing a thing, but that when you do a thing, you don't do it in five minutes or in five hours, but in five years.