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It's the viewer that makes the work.

Marcel Duchamp

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Marcel Duchamp
Age: 81 †
Born: 1887
Born: July 28
Died: 1968
Died: October 1
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My art would be that of living: each moment, each breath is a work inscribed nowhere.
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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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Three or four drops of height have nothing to do with savageness.
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I believe that the artist doesn't know what he does. I attach even more importance to the spectator than to the artist.
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While all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.
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I believe that a picture, a work of art, lives and dies just as we do.
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All this twaddle, the existence of God, atheism, determinism, liberation, societies, death, etc., are pieces of a chess game called language, and they are amusing only if one does not preoccupy oneself with 'winning or losing this game of chess.
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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 was poking fun at myself most of all.
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I like living, breathing better than working...my art is that of living. Each second, each breath is a work which is inscribed nowhere, which is neither visual nor cerebral, it's a sort of constant euphoria.
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An abstract painting need in 50 years by no means look abstract any longer.
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