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..paint was always [in history of painting] a means to an end, whether the end was religious, social, decorative or romantic. Now it's become an end in itself..

— Marcel Duchamp

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

To be looked at [from the other side of his art-work 'The Glass'] with one eye, close to, for almost an hour.

You think you're doing something entirely your own, and a year later, you look at it and you see actually the roots of where your art comes from without your knowing it at all.

Art Is the Highest Form of Hope & Other Quotes by Artists by Phaidon (2016)

The only man in the past whom I really respect was Seurat.. .He didn't let his hand interfere with his mind.

I wanted to kill art for myself.. ..a new thought for that object.

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