Marcel Duchamp Quotes

“Reversibility: seeing through opaqueness, not-seeing through transparency. The wooden door and the glass door: two opposite facets of the same idea. This opposition is resolved in an identity: in both cases we look at ourselves looking. Hinge procedure. The question “What do we see?” confronts us with ourselves.”
― Octavio Paz, Marcel Duchamp: Appearance Stripped Bare

“is not really a system of painting but a method of internal investigation. It is not the philosophy of painting but painting as philosophy.”
― Octavio Paz, Marcel Duchamp: Appearance Stripped Bare