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Humor and laughter - not necessarily derogatory derision - are my pet tools. This may come from my general philosophy of never taking the world too seriously - for fear of dying of boredom.

~Marcel Duchamp

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Alchemy is a kind of philosophy: a kind of thinking that leads to a way of understanding.

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One is a painter because one wants so-called freedom; one doesn't want to go to the office every morning.

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I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.

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I like living, breathing better than working... Each second, each breath is a work which is inscribed nowhere, which is neither visual nor cerebral. It's a kind of constant euphoria.

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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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Art is a habit-forming drug. Art has absolutely no existence as veracity, as truth. People always speak of it with this great, religious reverence, but why should it be so revered?

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A painting that doesn't shock isn't worth painting.

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'Art or anti-art?' was the question I asked when I returned from Munich in 1912 and decided to abandon pure painting or painting for its own sake. I thought of introducing elements alien to painting as the only way out of a pictorial and chromatic dead end.

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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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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Artist

Born: July 28th, 1887

Died: October 2nd, 1968

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