Chess players are madmen of a certain quality, the way the artist is supposed to be, and isn't, in general.

The individual, man as a man, man as a brain, if you like, interests me more than what he makes, because I've noticed that most artists only repeat themselves.

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.

There is no solution, for there is no problem.

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.

An abstract painting need in 50 years by no means look "abstract" any longer.

It's not what you see that is art. Art is the gap.