Marcel DuchampThinkers

Art is a mental act, a fact of consciousness.

Art is neither political nor social.

Art is not the links which exist but those that are missing. It's not what you see that is art... art is the gap.

Chess is a kind of drawing and a mechanical reality.

Chess is the movement of pieces eating one another.

Chess is an art — while all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.

Chess is much purer than art in its social position. While having all the beauty of art, it cannot be commercialized.

Chess is a game with which one creates beautiful problems.

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

Chess is a game whose pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chessboard, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem

Dada is a metaphysical attitude and an extreme protest against the physical side of painting.

Dada is just turpentine intoxication.

Dada is turpentine intoxication.