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If only America would realize that the art of Europe is finished - dead - and that America is the country of the art of the future, instead of trying to base everything she does on European traditions!

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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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Painting is a language of its own. You cannot interpret one form of expression with another form of expression.

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The curious thing about the Ready-Made is that I've never been able to arrive at a definition or explanation that fully satisfies me. There's still magic in the idea, so I'd rather keep it that way than try to be exoteric about it.

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Rational intelligence is dangerous and leads to ratiocination. The painter is a medium who doesn't realize what he is doing. No translation can express the mystery of sensibility, a word, still unreliable, which is nevertheless the basis of painting or poetry, like a kind of alchemy.

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I happen to have been born a Cartesian. The French education is based on a sequence of strict logic. You carry it with you.

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I haven't been in the Louvre for twenty years. It doesn't interest me because I have these doubts about the value of the judgments which decided that all these pictures should be presented to the Louvre instead of others which weren't even considered.

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Why are all the artists so dead-set on distorting? It seems to be a reaction against photography, but I'm not sure.

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Painter after painter, since the beginning of the century, has tended toward abstraction. First, the Impressionists simplified the landscape in terms of color, and then the Fauves simplified it again by adding distortion, which, for some reason, is a characteristic of our century.

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Artist

Born: July 28th, 1887

Died: October 2nd, 1968

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