Marcel Duchamp, the surrealist artist, painter, sculptor is depicted here in ca. 26 of his quotes and quotations. Duchamp was from origin a French artist who lived and worked in America for decades. He became a famous artist because of his early ready-made’s, as the ‘Bicycle wheel’ or the ‘Fresh Widow’ in 1920. Later he became ‘famous’ because he stopped making art: the so-called ‘Silence of Duchamp’. Duchamp influenced & criticized younger American artist as Rauschenberg, Warhol, and the German artist Joseph Beuys.