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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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I feel shame, not for the wrong things I have done, but for the right things that I have failed to do.
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I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.
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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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It's the viewer that makes the work.
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I consider painting as a means of expression, not as a goal.
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I thought to discourage aesthetics... I threw the bottlerack and the urinal in their faces and now they admire them for their aesthetic beauty.
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