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Possible reality [is obtained] by slightly bending physical and chemical laws.
Marcel Duchamp
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Marcel Duchamp
Age: 81 †
Born: 1887
Born: July 28
Died: 1968
Died: October 1
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Henri Robert Marcel Duchamp
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Chess players are madmen of a certain quality, the way the artist is supposed to be, and isn't, in general.
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The curious thing about that moustache and goatee is that when you look at the Mona Lisa it becomes a man. It is not a woman disguised as a man it is a real man, and that was my discovery, without realising it at the time.
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I like living, breathing better than working...my art is that of living. Each second, each breath is a work which is inscribed nowhere, which is neither visual nor cerebral, it's a sort of constant euphoria.
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I've decided that art is a habit-forming drug. That's all it is, for the artist, for the collector, for anybody connected with it.
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Since the tubes of paint used by the artist are manufactured and ready made products we must conclude that all the paintings in the world are 'readymades aided' and also works of assemblage.
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I believe that the artist doesn't know what he does. I attach even more importance to the spectator than to the artist.
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