What I have in mind is that art may be bad, good or indifferent, but, whatever adjective is used, we must call it art, and bad art is still art in the same way that a bad emotion is still an emotion.

Chess is a sport. A violent sport.

Art is not about itself but the attention we bring to it.

I feel shame, not for the wrong things I have done, but for the right things that I have failed to do.

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

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.

Art is like a shipwreck; it's every man for himself.