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I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products.

~Marcel Duchamp

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I would have to think about it for two or three months before I decided to do something which would have meaning. And it would have to be more than just an impression or pleasure. I would need an objective, a meaning. That is the only thing that could help me.

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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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I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.

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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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What art is, in reality, is this missing link, not the links which exist. It's not what you see that is art; art is the gap.

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My position is the lack of a position, but, of course, you can't even talk about it; the minute you talk, you spoil the whole game.

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When I put a bicycle wheel on a stool, the fork down, there was no idea of a 'ready-made' or anything else. It was just a distraction. I didn't have any special reason to do it, or any intention of showing it or describing anything.

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There does not exist a painter who knows himself or knows what he is doing.

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I refused to accept anything, doubted everything. So, doubting everything, I had to find something that had not existed before, something I had not thought of before. Any idea that came to me, the thing would be to turn it around and try to see it with another set of senses.

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Artist

Born: July 28th, 1887

Died: October 2nd, 1968

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