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What am I? Do I know? I am a man: quite simply, a 'breather.'

~Marcel Duchamp

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Marcel, no more painting; go get a job.

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My stay in Munich was the scene of my complete liberation.

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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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One does not contemplate it like a picture. The idea of contemplation disappears completely. Simply take note that it's a bottle rack, or that it's a bottle rack that has changed its destination... It's not the visual question of the readymade that counts; it's the fact that it exists, even.

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When the vision of the 'Nude' flashed upon me, I knew that it would break forever the enslaving chains of Naturalism.

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I was never interested in looking at myself in an aesthetic mirror. My intention was always to get away from myself, though I knew perfectly well that I was using myself. Call it a little game between 'I' and 'me.'

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Distortion came first from the fauves, who, in turn, were under the strong influence of primitive art.

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In the beginning, the cubists broke up form without even knowing they were doing it. Probably the compulsion to show multiple sides of an object forced us to break the object up - or, even better, to project a panorama that unfolded different facets of the same object.

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Everything important that I have done can be put into a little suitcase.

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Artist

Born: July 28th, 1887

Died: October 2nd, 1968

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