The curious thing about that moustache and goatee is that when you look at the Mona Lisa it becomes a man. It is not a woman disguised as a man; it is a real man, and that was my discovery, without realising it at the time.
Marcel DuchampThe Chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chessboard, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem
Marcel DuchampAs 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 Duchamp