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My art would be that of living: each moment, each breath is a work inscribed nowhere.
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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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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Among our articles of lazy hardware, I recommend the faucet that stops dripping when no one is listening to it.
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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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