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“ The creative act is not performed by the artist alone, the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act. ”

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

~ Marcel Duchamp

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

~ Marcel Duchamp

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

~ Marcel Duchamp

The individual, man as a man, man as a brain, if you like, interests me more than what he makes, because I've noticed that most artists only repeat themselves.

~ Marcel Duchamp