Marcel Duchamp Broke Free From Drugs by Breaking Free From Art
From Marcel Duchamp: The Afternoon Sessions
"Art is a habit-forming drug, that’s all it is, for the collector, for the artist, for anybody connected with art. It has absolutely no existence... as veracity or truth of any kind. As a form of definition I’m delighted with this. I’m very convinced of it."
"I’m afraid I’m an agnostic in art, so to speak. I don’t believe in it with all the trimmings, the mystic trimming and the reverence trimming and so forth. As a drug it’s very useful to many people. It’s a sedative drug."
"I don’t believe in art. I believe in the artist."
