Marcel Duchamp called his idea of ready-mades as a non-artistic strategy that according to him opposed and interrogated traditional theories of art making. However, his own ready-mades involved certain creative approaches that problematize his strategy. All the artists including Duchamp, his contemporaries, as well as artists from post World War era and later 20th and 21st centuries, employed ready-mades or the forms of objects in their works to re inquire the traditional art notions but the original idea of ready-mades got neglected with the unconscious artistic involvements and with formations of crafty replicas of ready-mades. This paper examines the circumstances, reasoning and thought processes of artists such as Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, Sherrie Levine, Robert Gobber, Mike Bidlo and others, that led them to engage in artistic process.