Marcel Duchamp Quote

Painting is over and done with. Who could do anything better than this propeller? Look, could you do that?


Duchamp's remark to Brancusi, visiting the Paris Aviation Show of 1919; as quoted in Looking at Dada, eds. Sarah Ganz Blythe & Edward D. Powers - The Museum of Modern Art New York, ISBN: 087070-705-1; p. 49


Painting is over and done with. Who could do anything better than this propeller? Look, could you do that?

Painting is over and done with. Who could do anything better than this propeller? Look, could you do that?

Painting is over and done with. Who could do anything better than this propeller? Look, could you do that?

Painting is over and done with. Who could do anything better than this propeller? Look, could you do that?