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In my day artists wanted to be outcasts, pariahs. Now they are all integrated into society
Marcel Duchamp
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Marcel Duchamp
Age: 81 †
Born: 1887
Born: July 28
Died: 1968
Died: October 1
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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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I consider painting as a means of expression, not as a goal.
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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.
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I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.
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In the last analysis, the artist may shout from all the rooftops that he is a genius he will have to wait for the verdict of posterity.
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An abstract painting need in 50 years by no means look abstract any longer.
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