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.
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 DuchampIn my day artists wanted to be outcasts, pariahs. Now they are all integrated into society
Marcel Duchamp