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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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As soon as we start putting our thoughts into words and sentences everything gets distorted, language is just no damn good—I use it because I have to, but I don’t put any trust in it. We never understand each other.
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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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In my day artists wanted to be outcasts, pariahs. Now they are all integrated into society
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The individual, man as a man, man as a brain, if you like, interests me more than what he makes, because I've noticed that most artists only repeat themselves.
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I'm not at all sure that the concept of the readymade isn't the most important single idea to come out of my work.
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In the last analysis, the artist may shout from all the rooftops that he is a genius he will have to wait for the verdict of posterity.
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Three or four drops of height have nothing to do with savageness.
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