Artists of all times are like the gamblers of Monte Carlo, and this blind lottery allows some to succeed and ruins others. In my opinion, neither the winners nor the losers are worth worrying about.

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• Marcel Duchamp:

  There does not exist a painter who knows himself or knows what he is doing.

• Marcel Duchamp:

  It is a matter of great indifference to me what criticism is printed in the papers and the magazine

• Marcel Duchamp:

  I wanted to use my possibility to be an individual, and I suppose I have, no?

• Marcel Duchamp:

  In France, in Europe, the young artists of any generation always act as grandsons of some great man

• Marcel Duchamp:

  The 'Glass' is not my autobiography, nor is it self-expression. Far from it.

• Marcel Duchamp:

  I'm nothing else but an artist, I'm sure, and delighted to be.

• Marcel Duchamp:

  I am afraid to end up being in need to sell canvases - in other words, to be a society painter.

• Marcel Duchamp:

  You have to approach something with indifference, as if you had no aesthetic emotion. The choice of

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  When cubism began to take a social form, Metzinger was especially talked about. He explained cubism

• Marcel Duchamp:

  Gravity is not controlled physically in us by one of the 5 ordinary senses. We always reduce a grav