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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.

Marcel Duchamp

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Marcel Duchamp
Age: 81 †
Born: 1887
Born: July 28
Died: 1968
Died: October 1
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