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Marcel Duchamp
French
July 28, 1887
Artist
A painting that doesn't shock isn't worth painting.
Marcel Duchamp
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Shock
I'm nothing else but an artist, I'm sure, and delighted to be.
Marcel Duchamp
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Nothing
Else
Sure
The 'Glass' is not my autobiography, nor is it self-expression. Far from it.
Marcel Duchamp
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Far
Nor
Glass
I wanted to use my possibility to be an individual, and I suppose I have, no?
Marcel Duchamp
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Use
Individual
What am I? Do I know? I am a man: quite simply, a 'breather.'
Marcel Duchamp
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Know
Am
I Am
Dada was an extreme protest against the physical side of painting. It was a metaphysical attitude.
Marcel Duchamp
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Attitude
Against
Side
Distortion came first from the fauves, who, in turn, were under the strong influence of primitive art.
Marcel Duchamp
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Who
Were
First
I didn't abandon everything at a moment's notice - on the contrary. I returned to France from America, leaving the 'Large Glass' unfinished.
Marcel Duchamp
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Everything
America
Moment
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.
Marcel Duchamp
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Like
Just
Because
In the 'Nude Descending a Staircase,' I wanted to create a static image of movement: movement is an abstraction, a deduction articulated within the painting, without our knowing if a real person is or isn't descending an equally real staircase.
Marcel Duchamp
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Person
Wanted
Since Courbet, it's been believed that painting is addressed to the retina. That was everyone's error. The retinal shudder! Before, painting had other functions: it could be religious, philosophical, moral... our whole century is completely retinal, except for the Surrealists, who tried to go outside it somewhat.
Marcel Duchamp
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