French - Artist | July 28, 1887 - October 2, 1968
Things were sort of Bohemian in Montmartre - one lived, one painted, one was a painter - all that doesn't mean anything, fundamentally.
Marcel Duchamp
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One is a painter because one wants so-called freedom; one doesn't want to go to the office every morning.
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If only America would realize that the art of Europe is finished - dead - and that America is the country of the art of the future, instead of trying to base everything she does on European traditions!
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Painting is a language of its own. You cannot interpret one form of expression with another form of expression.
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My position is the lack of a position, but, of course, you can't even talk about it; the minute you talk, you spoil the whole game.
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Since Courbet, it's been believed that painting is addressed to the retina. That was everyone's error. The retinal shudder! Before, painting had other functions: it could be religious, philosophical, moral... our whole century is completely retinal, except for the Surrealists, who tried to go outside it somewhat.
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I happen to have been born a Cartesian. The French education is based on a sequence of strict logic. You carry it with you.
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I refused to accept anything, doubted everything. So, doubting everything, I had to find something that had not existed before, something I had not thought of before. Any idea that came to me, the thing would be to turn it around and try to see it with another set of senses.
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I haven't been in the Louvre for twenty years. It doesn't interest me because I have these doubts about the value of the judgments which decided that all these pictures should be presented to the Louvre instead of others which weren't even considered.
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Why are all the artists so dead-set on distorting? It seems to be a reaction against photography, but I'm not sure.
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Painter after painter, since the beginning of the century, has tended toward abstraction. First, the Impressionists simplified the landscape in terms of color, and then the Fauves simplified it again by adding distortion, which, for some reason, is a characteristic of our century.
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From a purely ethnological point of view, I was not a period-born Dada.
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