Among our articles of lazy hardware, I recommend the faucet that stops dripping when no one is listening to it.
Marcel DuchampNo, the thing to do is try to make a painting that will be alive in your own lifetime.
Marcel DuchampI 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.
Marcel DuchampTo all appearances the artist acts like a mediumistic being who, from the labyrinth beyond time and space, seeks his way out to a clearing. If we give the attributes of a medium to the artist, we must then deny him the state of consciousness on the aesthetic plane about what he is doing or why he is doing it. All this decisions in the artistic execution of the work rest with pure intuition and cannot be translated into a self-analysis, spoken or written, or even thought out.
Marcel Duchamp