I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art - and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position.

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.

This concern which interests us more than anything else: the blurring of the distinction between art and life.

Artmaking is making the invisible, visible.

You know exactly what I think of photography. I would like to see it make people despise painting until something else will make photography unbearable. (In a letter to Alfred Stieglitz)

You cannot define electricity. The same can be said of art. It is a kind of inner current in a human being, or something which needs no definition.

Three or four drops of height have nothing to do with savageness.