MARCEL DUCHAMP ON HIS READY MADE

«But you see, when I did produce things like that, it was not with the idea of producing thousands of them. It was really to get out of the exchangeability, I mean the monetization one might say, of the work of art. I never intended to sell my readymades. So it was really a gesture to show that one could do something without having, in the back of your head, the idea of making money through it».

Marcel Duchamp

The Afternoon interviews

by Calvin Tomkins

p.26