To all appearances, the artist acts like a mediumistic being who, from the labyrinth beyond time and space, seeks his way out to a clearing.

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.

I wanted to kill art for myself.. ..a new thought for that object.

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)

Do unto others as they wish, but with imagination.

I 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.

I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.