Marcel Duchamp

The word 'art' interests me very much. If it comes from Sanskrit, as I've heard, it signifies 'making.'
-Marcel Duchamp

The life of an artist is like the life of a monk, a lewd monk if you like, very Rabelaisian. It is an ordination.
-Marcel Duchamp

I've decided that art is a habit-forming drug. That's all it is, for the artist, for the collector, for anybody connected with it.
-Marcel Duchamp

It's true, of course, humor is very important in my life, as you know. That's the only reason for living, in fact.
-Marcel Duchamp

The thing to do is try to make a painting that will be alive in your own lifetime... -Marcel Duchamp

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 as a bad emotion is still an emotion.
-Marcel Duchamp