French - Artist | July 28, 1887 - October 2, 1968
I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.
Marcel Duchamp
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Man can never expect to start from scratch; he must start from ready-made things, like even his own mother and father.
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I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art - and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position.
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It's a product of two poles - there's the pole of the one who makes the work, and the pole of the one who looks at it. I give the latter as much importance as the one who makes it.
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What would I do with money? I have enough for my needs. I don't want any more. If I had a lot, I would have to care for it, worry about it.
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What am I? Do I know? I am a man: quite simply, a 'breather.'
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In French, there is an old expression, la patte, meaning the artist's touch, his personal style, his 'paw'. I wanted to get away from la patte and from all that retinal painting.
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There does not exist a painter who knows himself or knows what he is doing.
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There was an incident, in 1912, which 'gave me a turn,' so to speak: when I brought the 'Nude Descending a Staircase' to the Independants, and they asked me to withdraw it before the opening.
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Can works be made which are not 'of art'?
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I was highly attracted to chess for forty or forty-five years; then, little by little, my enthusiasm lessened.
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I am against the word 'anti' because it's a little bit like 'atheist,' as compared to 'believer.' And an atheist is just as much of a religious man as the believer is.
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