As soon as we start putting our thoughts into words and sentences everything gets distorted, language is just no damn goodโI use it because I have to, but I donโt put any trust in it. We never understand each other.
Marcel DuchampThe individual, man as a man, man as a brain, if you like, interests me more than what he makes, because I've noticed that most artists only repeat themselves.
Marcel DuchampI feel shame, not for the wrong things I have done, but for the right things that I have failed to do.
Marcel DuchampI like living, breathing better than working...my art is that of living. Each second, each breath is a work which is inscribed nowhere, which is neither visual nor cerebral, it's a sort of constant euphoria.
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