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Art has the lovely habit of ruining all artistic theories.
Marcel Duchamp
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Marcel Duchamp
Age: 81 †
Born: 1887
Born: July 28
Died: 1968
Died: October 1
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There is no solution, for there is no problem.
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It is the spectators who make the pictures.
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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 believe that a picture, a work of art, lives and dies just as we do.
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While all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.
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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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The life of an artist is like the life of a monk, a lewd monk if you like, very Rabelaisian. It is an ordination.
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What I have in mind is that art may be bad, good or indifferent, but, whatever adjective is used, we must call it art, and bad art is still art in the same way that a bad emotion is still an emotion.
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