Home » Quote » Marcel Duchamp » „I wanted to get away from the physical act of painting… For me the title (‘Fresh Widow’, 1920), with inscription under: ‘Fresh Widow Copyright Rose Sélavy, 1920’, [probably referring to all the widows because of the many killings of soldiers in World War, 1. which ended in 1918] was very important… I was interested in ideas – not merely visual products. I wanted to put painting once again at the service of the mind.“
„I wanted to get away from the physical act of painting… For me the title (‘Fresh Widow’, 1920), with inscription under: ‘Fresh Widow Copyright Rose Sélavy, 1920’, [probably referring to all the widows because of the many killings of soldiers in World War, 1. which ended in 1918] was very important… I was interested in ideas – not merely visual products. I wanted to put painting once again at the service of the mind.“