"The choice of the Readymade is always based on visual indifference and, at the same time, on the total absence of good or bad taste."

"The only works of art that America has given are her plumbing and her bridges."

"I don't think that art is something that you can define."

"I have always been interested in the idea of the art school."

"I was interested in ideas—not merely in visual products. I wanted to put painting once again at the service of the mind."