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

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Source : Arturo Schwarz, Marcel Duchamp (1997). “The complete works of Marcel Duchamp”, Delano Greenridge Editions

Marcel Duchamp

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“Rather, for all objects and experiences, there is a quantity that has optimum value. Above that quantity, the variable becomes toxic. To fall below that value is to be deprived.”
“I cannot imagine my hometown without forests, and I cannot imagine the earth turned into a desert.”
“When I finally got tired of arguing with her and decided to write a novel as if I was some kind of formulaic, genre writing drone, just to prove to her how awful it would be, I wrote the first book of the Dresden Files.”
“I like leaping around on stage as long as it's done with class. None of this jumping up in the air and doing the splits”
“With big folks, either people think you look mean or it's more of a jolly Santa Claus, 'Oh, he's just a pudgy little teddy bear pillow.'”
“I wouldn’t want to be labelled unless it was something much broader and inclusive such as an ecological artist or a visionary artist, but there’s a constraint in the definition of a feminist artist, you’re an artist and you’re a feminist.”
“I know I'd be an absolutely horrendous politician.”
“We must look at ourselves with the strictest eyes.”

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