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

Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another.

I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.

I was interested in ideas, not merely visual products. I wanted to put painting once again at the service of the mind.

Anything is art if an artist says it is.

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.

Artmaking is making the invisible, visible.