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 Quotes
I force myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.
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| Birth: | 28th July, 1887 |
| Death: | 2nd October, 1968 |
| Nationality: | French |
| Profession: | Artist, Librarian |
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Marcel Duchamp was a French American painter, sculptor, chess player, and writer whose work is associated with Dadaism. Duchamp is commonly regarded, along with Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, as one of the three artists who helped to define the revolutionary developments in the plastic arts in the opening decades of the twentieth century, responsible for significant developments in painting and sculpture.
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