Marcel Duchamp

I think Duchamp said, "Le regard fait le tableau." It is the look that makes the painting. We're ultimately making art for it to be completed by a public.

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, 2020s On-Chain Art: Erick Calderon, Lauren Lee McCarthy

We can, of course, go back a lot longer in music and language, but I think the twentieth century was all about the origins of generative art. It goes back to Marcel Duchamp.

Casey Reas, Casey Reas on the History of Generative Art - Part 1