I have impressed upon you my preoccupation with earning money so as to have a secure existence over there. That's the way it have to be... I am very happy to hear that you (Walter Pach) sold these canvasses for me and thank you very sincerely for your friendship. But I am afraid of getting to the stage of needing to sell canvases, In a word, of being a painter for a living. – So I'll be leaving probably on the 22nd or rather 29th May [1915], if the police authorities allow me to take the steamer.


In: a letter to Walter Pach, Paris 27 April 1915; as quoted in The Duchamp Book, ed. Gavin Parkinson, Tate Publishing, London 2008 p. 157

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I have impressed upon you my preoccupation with earning money so as to have a secure existence over there. That's the way it have to be... I am very...

I have impressed upon you my preoccupation with earning money so as to have a secure existence over there. That's the way it have to be... I am very...

I have impressed upon you my preoccupation with earning money so as to have a secure existence over there. That's the way it have to be... I am very...

I have impressed upon you my preoccupation with earning money so as to have a secure existence over there. That's the way it have to be... I am very...