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The life of an artist is like the life of a monk, a lewd monk if you like, very Rabelaisian. It is an ordination.
Marcel Duchamp
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Marcel Duchamp
Age: 81 †
Born: 1887
Born: July 28
Died: 1968
Died: October 1
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An abstract painting need in 50 years by no means look abstract any longer.
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Three or four drops of height have nothing to do with savageness.
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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 don't believe in art. I believe in artists.
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It's not what you see that is art. Art is the gap.
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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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Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another.
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It's the viewer that makes the work.
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I believe that a picture, a work of art, lives and dies just as we do.
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