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Three or four drops of height have nothing to do with savageness.
Marcel Duchamp
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Marcel Duchamp
Age: 81 †
Born: 1887
Born: July 28
Died: 1968
Died: October 1
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Henri Robert Marcel Duchamp
Rrose Sélavy
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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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I consider painting as a means of expression, not as a goal.
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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'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 is the spectators who make the pictures.
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I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products.
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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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In my day artists wanted to be outcasts, pariahs. Now they are all integrated into society
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