one of the things that we of course are tremendously interested in is the whole idea of the ready-made we're familiar with the concept of junk-sculpture this is something that such artists as thunk a and even Picasso in earlier days more or less advanced to pick up an object which was made for an entirely different use possibly a discarded object which because of its shape and its patination its configuration suggests another possibility it may be a very satisfying texture a very romantic kind of quality about the piece in other words became a kind of chosen object but chosen for aesthetic reasons in what respect this junk sculpture differed from the concept of the ready-made let's say for example the bottle rack or the bicycle wheel this was of course the difficulty when it came to my mind but that was back in 1915 when I applied the word ready-made through these objects in fact I only made 13 of them in my life in 40 years so it's not a very much of an occupation but even so even so I mean the fact of choosing of selecting and deciding on one was a result of being very careful about not using my sense of beauty or my belief in some aesthetics or some kind in other words finding some object of complete indifference as far as aesthetics are concerned and that indifference is very difficult because there's always some detail in any object that will attract you aesthetically meaning that you'll find it beautiful or even ugly which is the same thing ugly or beautiful is the same thing when it comes to choosing an object in the form of a ready-made by already made also the idea of was being made by other manufactured or made by another person can be already made too easy I even remember signing a big painting in a restaurant for the pleasure of calling it ready-made you see and of course it was not manufactured so of course I couldn't take the painting with me because it was attached to the wall but this explains that the difficulties to make people understand that it was not through an attraction of the beauty of the object that I would call it ready-made that's why I made so few because after a certain while anything becomes beautiful you know it takes 40 years sometimes for my what is it called the bottle drag to become very people say it's so beautiful and it's the worst compliment they can give me