What other artists have to say about Duchamp
"Duchamp was the most honest of artists. In fact, the only honest artist!"
"Art did not change with the readymade (ie. the bicycle wheel) but it ended then. Since him, other artists have spent over eighty years reproducing his work and claiming it as their own"
"His persistent attempts to destroy frames of reference altered our thinking, established new units of thought".
"He changed the condition of being here"
"He smiled at art history whilst making sure that his work ended up in museums"
"When he understood that he had sown the wind with his youthful ideas.. he stopped playing the game and announced, prophetically, that other young men would specialise in the chess of contemporary art"
Quotations from: Marc Bergerman, Geoff Bunn, Salvador Dali, Jasper Johns
