I'm not at all sure that the concept of the readymade isn't the most important single idea to come out of my work.
I think there is a great deal to the idea of not doing a thing, but that when you do a thing, you don't do it in five minutes or in five hours, but in five years.
I was interested in ideas, not in visual products. I wanted to put painting again in the service of the mind.
My idea was to chose an object that wouldn't attract me, either by its beauty or by its ugliness. To find a point of indifference in my looking at it, you see
I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products.