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Among our articles of lazy hardware, I recommend the faucet that stops dripping when no one is listening to 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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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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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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