“In Paris, in the early days, there were 17 people who understood the “readymades” – the very rare readymades by Marcel Duchamp. Nowadays there are 17 million who understand them, and that one day, when all objects that exist are considered readymades, there will be no readymades at all. Then Originality will become the artistic Work, produced convulsively by the artist by hand.”

(Salvador Dali, “L’Échecs, c’est moi”, preface to Pierre Cabanne’s Dialogues with Marcel Duchamp, trans. Ron Padgett.)