The only distinctions remaining to be made here are between ‘fine’ art and ‘applied’ art, or ‘popular’ art and ‘high’ art, between ‘amateur’ art and ‘professional’ art, and, of course, between good art and less good art. Selecting a very poor, amateurish, depiction (say a businessman’s deskpad doodle) and presenting it in a nice frame in a serious exhibition might be interesting, but it would not satisfy the criteria Duchamp established for the Readymade. The doodle is already nominated as art and the operation of the Readymade in regard to it is redundant
