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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
-- Andy Warhol
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In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.
-- Andy Warhol
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An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.
-- Andy Warhol
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I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.
-- Andy Warhol
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If you're not trying to be real, you don't have to get it right. That's art.
-- Andy Warhol
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I never think that people die. They just go to department stores.
-- Andy Warhol
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We live in an age when the traditional great subjects - the human form, the landscape, even newer traditions such as abstract expressionism - are daily devalued by commercial art.
-- Andy Warhol
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My fascination with letting images repeat and repeat - or in film's case 'run on' - manifests my belief that we spend much of our lives seeing without observing.
-- Andy Warhol
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Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible.
-- Andy Warhol
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I had a lot of dates but I decided to stay home and dye my eyebrows.
-- Andy Warhol
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I never understood why when you died, you didn't just vanish, everything could just keep going on the way it was only you just wouldn't be there. I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment.'
-- Andy Warhol
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I'm the type who'd be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasn't going to. I'm the type who'd like to sit home and watch every party that I'm invited to on a monitor in my bedroom.
-- Andy Warhol
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It's the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented. They show you what to do, how to do it, when to do it, how to feel about it, and how to look how you feel about it.
-- Andy Warhol
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Land really is the best art.
-- Andy Warhol
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Once you 'got' Pop, you could never see a sign again the same way again. And once you thought Pop, you could never see America the same way again.
-- Andy Warhol
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I'd asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Finally one lady friend asked the right question, 'Well, what do you love most?' That's how I started painting money.
-- Andy Warhol
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Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.
-- Andy Warhol
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I love Los Angeles, and I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic.
-- Andy Warhol
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Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?
-- Andy Warhol
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Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets.
-- Andy Warhol
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I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don't know. I mean, how can you tell?
-- Andy Warhol
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I think everybody should like everybody.
-- Andy Warhol
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Everyone needs a fantasy.
-- Andy Warhol
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What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you can know that the President drinks Coke. Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink Coke, too.
-- Andy Warhol
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Since I was shot, everything is such a dream to me. Like I don't know whether I'm alive or whether I died. I wasn't afraid before. And having been dead once, I shouldn't feel fear. But I am afraid. I don't understand why.
-- Andy Warhol
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I went to vote once, but I got too scared. I couldn't decide whom to vote for.
-- Andy Warhol
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I just happen to like ordinary things. When I paint them, I don't try to make them extraordinary. I just try to paint them ordinary-ordinary.
-- Andy Warhol
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Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.
-- Andy Warhol
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Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details.
-- Andy Warhol
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I am a deeply superficial person.
-- Andy Warhol
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It would be very glamorous to be reincarnated as a great big ring on Liz Taylor's finger.
-- Andy Warhol
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During the 1960s, I think, people forgot what emotions were supposed to be. And I don't think they've ever remembered.
-- Andy Warhol
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When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships.
-- Andy Warhol
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I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.
-- Andy Warhol
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I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is 'In 15 minutes everybody will be famous.'
-- Andy Warhol
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Since people are going to be living longer and getting older, they'll just have to learn how to be babies longer.
-- Andy Warhol
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Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.
-- Andy Warhol
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People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly.
-- Andy Warhol
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I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of 'work', because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.
-- Andy Warhol
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Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there - I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television.
-- Andy Warhol
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I like to work when I'm not working - do something that may not be considered work, but to me it's work. Getting exercise by going to the grocery store.
-- Andy Warhol
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Art is what you can get away with.
-- Andy Warhol
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I used to have the same lunch every day, for 20 years, I guess, the same thing over and over again.
-- Andy Warhol
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Fantasy love is much better than reality love.
-- Andy Warhol
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If you wear a wig, everybody notices. But if you then dye the wig, people notice the dye.
-- Andy Warhol
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Human beings are born solitary, but everywhere they are in chains - daisy chains - of interactivity. Social actions are makeshift forms, often courageous, sometimes ridiculous, always strange. And in a way, every social action is a negotiation, a compromise between 'his,' 'her' or 'their' wish and yours.
-- Andy Warhol
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I'm for mechanical art. When I took up silk screening, it was to more fully exploit the preconceived image through the commercial techniques of multiple reproduction.
-- Andy Warhol
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Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.
-- Andy Warhol
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People sometimes say the way things happen in the movies is unreal, but actually, it's the way things happen to you in life that's unreal.
-- Andy Warhol
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I think it would be terrific if everybody was alike.
-- Andy Warhol
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I want to die with my blue jeans on.
-- Andy Warhol
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I always hear myself saying, 'She's a beauty!' or 'He's a beauty!' or 'What a beauty!' but I never know what I'm talking about.
-- Andy Warhol
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Now and then, someone would accuse me of being evil - of letting people destroy themselves while I watched, just so I could film them and tape-record them. But I didn't think of myself as evil - just realistic.
-- Andy Warhol
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I think the first photograph I did was a ballplayer. It was a way of showing action or something.
-- Andy Warhol
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The most exciting thing is not doing it. If you fall in love with someone and never do it, it's much more exciting.
-- Andy Warhol
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I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs.
-- Andy Warhol
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I like boring things.
-- Andy Warhol
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If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There's nothing behind it.
-- Andy Warhol
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I always wished I had died, and I still wish that, because I could have gotten the whole thing over with.
-- Andy Warhol
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I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment.'
-- Andy Warhol
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I'll bet there are a lot of artists that nobody hears about who just make more money than anybody. The people that do all the sculptures and paintings for big building construction. We never hear about them, but they make more money than anybody.
-- Andy Warhol
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I think Chris Burden is terrific. I really do.
-- Andy Warhol
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When you think about it, department stores are kind of like museums.
-- Andy Warhol
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The clothes of Courreges are so nice.
-- Andy Warhol
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Art? That's a man's name.
-- Andy Warhol
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Checks aren't money.
-- Andy Warhol
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Voyeurism is a director's job description. It's an artist's, too.
-- Andy Warhol
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I think kids should go to high school until they're 30. No, really, because people are staying younger now and there's nothing to do. If you stayed longer, then it would be really great.
-- Andy Warhol
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I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks.
-- Andy Warhol
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My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person.
-- Andy Warhol
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What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest.
-- Andy Warhol
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I always like to see if the art across the street is better than mine.
-- Andy Warhol
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I want to be a machine.
-- Andy Warhol
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I think they should have movies in restaurants. I can't believe that so many people get together just to sit there. It's so abstract... isn't it abstract? What are these people sitting here watching?
-- Andy Warhol
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I've been invited to the White House about five times. I think the greatest thing would be if they actually invited everybody to the White House every night... they'd just take about 500 people a night. Everybody would just love this country because it's so thrilling to go there. It really is.
-- Andy Warhol
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So many people seem to prefer my silver-screenings of movie stars to the rest of my work. It must be the subject matter that attracts them, because my death and violence paintings are just as good.
-- Andy Warhol
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The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol
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Sociological critics are waste makers.
-- Andy Warhol
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Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
-- Salvador Dali
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Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
-- Salvador Dali
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Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.
-- Salvador Dali
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The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad.
-- Salvador Dali
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Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.
-- Salvador Dali
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Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.
-- Salvador Dali
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Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
-- Salvador Dali
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The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
-- Salvador Dali
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At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.
-- Salvador Dali
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We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.
-- Salvador Dali
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I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
-- Salvador Dali
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The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
-- Salvador Dali
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I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it.
-- Salvador Dali
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I don't do drugs. I am drugs.
-- Salvador Dali
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Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
-- Salvador Dali
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There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.
-- Salvador Dali
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Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali
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The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali
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What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.
-- Salvador Dali
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There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.
-- Salvador Dali
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The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
-- Salvador Dali
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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
-- Salvador Dali
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It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.
-- Salvador Dali
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Let my enemies devour each other.
-- Salvador Dali
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I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.
-- Salvador Dali
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Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete and classic as the works of museums.
-- Salvador Dali
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Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.
-- Salvador Dali
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Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic.
-- Salvador Dali
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Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.
-- Salvador Dali
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Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.
-- Salvador Dali
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Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory.
-- Salvador Dali
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The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
-- Salvador Dali
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Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.
-- Salvador Dali
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We must always remember that the Chinese revolution was not a peasant's revolution, but one of the extreme Right.
-- Salvador Dali
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The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
-- Pablo Picasso
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It takes a long time to become young.
-- Pablo Picasso
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Action is the foundational key to all success.
-- Pablo Picasso
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Youth has no age.
-- Pablo Picasso
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All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
-- Pablo Picasso
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I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
-- Pablo Picasso
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The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.
-- Pablo Picasso
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Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
-- Pablo Picasso
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Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.
-- Pablo Picasso
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Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso
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Everything you can imagine is real.
-- Pablo Picasso
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Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
-- Pablo Picasso
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Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
-- Pablo Picasso
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Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
-- Pablo Picasso
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Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?
-- Pablo Picasso
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I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
-- Pablo Picasso
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The older you get the stronger the wind gets - and it's always in your face.
-- Pablo Picasso
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He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.
-- Pablo Picasso
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Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.
-- Pablo Picasso
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Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
-- Pablo Picasso
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I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.
-- Pablo Picasso
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What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist.
-- Pablo Picasso
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Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.
-- Pablo Picasso
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Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.
-- Pablo Picasso
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Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.
-- Pablo Picasso
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To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.
-- Pablo Picasso
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We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.
-- Pablo Picasso
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Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.
-- Pablo Picasso
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Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
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We don't grow older, we grow riper.
-- Pablo Picasso
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To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.
-- Pablo Picasso
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The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?
-- Pablo Picasso
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It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.
-- Pablo Picasso
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The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
-- Pablo Picasso
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To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved.
-- Pablo Picasso
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If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.
-- Pablo Picasso
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Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.
-- Pablo Picasso
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We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.
-- Pablo Picasso
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They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.
-- Pablo Picasso
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The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.
-- Pablo Picasso
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Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.
-- Pablo Picasso
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The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.
-- Pablo Picasso
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My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.
-- Pablo Picasso
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An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.
-- Pablo Picasso
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When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise, starting with the egg and following the same process in reverse, one finishes with the portrait.
-- Pablo Picasso
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Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.
-- Pablo Picasso
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso
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God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.
-- Pablo Picasso
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To draw you must close your eyes and sing.
-- Pablo Picasso
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When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it.
-- Pablo Picasso
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Good artists copy, great artists steal.
-- Pablo Picasso
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There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats.
-- Pablo Picasso
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Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?
-- Pablo Picasso
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There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
-- Pablo Picasso
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Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.
-- Pablo Picasso
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If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur.
-- Pablo Picasso
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I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.
-- Pablo Picasso
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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
-- Pablo Picasso
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I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.
-- Pablo Picasso
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It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
-- Pablo Picasso
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Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
-- Pablo Picasso
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One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.
-- Pablo Picasso
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Love is the greatest refreshment in life.
-- Pablo Picasso
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I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!
-- Pablo Picasso
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What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero.
-- Pablo Picasso
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One must act in painting as in life, directly.
-- Pablo Picasso
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You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.
-- Pablo Picasso
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I do not seek. I find.
-- Pablo Picasso
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Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create.
-- Pablo Picasso
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Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.
-- Pablo Picasso
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Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.
-- Pablo Picasso
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If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.
-- Pablo Picasso
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You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.
-- Pablo Picasso
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Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?
-- Pablo Picasso
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When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk, you'll end up as the Pope.' Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.
-- Pablo Picasso
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Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.
-- Pablo Picasso
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
-- Pablo Picasso
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The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is.
-- Pablo Picasso
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Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar.
-- Pablo Picasso
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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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I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art - and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position.
-- Marcel Duchamp
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I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.
-- Marcel Duchamp
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I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products.
-- Marcel Duchamp
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Marcel, no more painting; go get a job.
-- Marcel Duchamp
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All painting, beginning with Impressionism, is antiscientific, even Seurat. I was interested in introducing the precise and exact aspect of science, which hadn't often been done, or at least hadn't been talked about very much.
-- Marcel Duchamp
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What art is, in reality, is this missing link, not the links which exist. It's not what you see that is art; art is the gap.
-- Marcel Duchamp
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Can works be made which are not 'of art'?
-- Marcel Duchamp
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There does not exist a painter who knows himself or knows what he is doing.
-- Marcel Duchamp
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Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another.
-- Marcel Duchamp
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Living is more a question of what one spends than what one makes.
-- Marcel Duchamp
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In chess, there are some extremely beautiful things in the domain of movement, but not in the visual domain. It's the imagining of the movement or of the gesture that makes the beauty in this case.
-- Marcel Duchamp
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A painting that doesn't shock isn't worth painting.
-- Marcel Duchamp
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Alchemy is a kind of philosophy: a kind of thinking that leads to a way of understanding.
-- Marcel Duchamp
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Why are all the artists so dead-set on distorting? It seems to be a reaction against photography, but I'm not sure.
-- Marcel Duchamp
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Dada was an extreme protest against the physical side of painting. It was a metaphysical attitude.
-- Marcel Duchamp
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Everything important that I have done can be put into a little suitcase.
-- Marcel Duchamp
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There was an incident, in 1912, which 'gave me a turn,' so to speak: when I brought the 'Nude Descending a Staircase' to the Independants, and they asked me to withdraw it before the opening.
-- Marcel Duchamp
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Art doesn't interest me. Only artists interest me.
-- Marcel Duchamp
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The great problem was the selection of the readymade. I needed to choose an object without it impressing me: that is to say, without it providing any sort of aesthetic delectation. Moreover, I needed to reduce my own personal taste to absolute zero.
-- Marcel Duchamp
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Gravity is not controlled physically in us by one of the 5 ordinary senses. We always reduce a gravity experience to an autocognizance, real or imagined, registered inside us in the region of the stomach.
-- Marcel Duchamp
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A game of chess is a visual and plastic thing, and if it isn't geometric in the static sense of the word, it is mechanical, since it moves. It's a drawing; it's a mechanical reality.
-- Marcel Duchamp
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When I put a bicycle wheel on a stool, the fork down, there was no idea of a 'ready-made' or anything else. It was just a distraction. I didn't have any special reason to do it, or any intention of showing it or describing anything.
-- Marcel Duchamp
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I haven't been in the Louvre for twenty years. It doesn't interest me because I have these doubts about the value of the judgments which decided that all these pictures should be presented to the Louvre instead of others which weren't even considered.
-- Marcel Duchamp
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From a purely ethnological point of view, I was not a period-born Dada.
-- Marcel Duchamp
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In the beginning, the cubists broke up form without even knowing they were doing it. Probably the compulsion to show multiple sides of an object forced us to break the object up - or, even better, to project a panorama that unfolded different facets of the same object.
-- Marcel Duchamp
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I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.
-- Marcel Duchamp
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The word 'art' interests me very much. If it comes from Sanskrit, as I've heard, it signifies 'making.' Now everyone makes something, and those who make things on a canvas with a frame, they're called artists. Formerly, they were called craftsmen, a term I prefer. We're all craftsmen, in civilian or military or artistic life.
-- Marcel Duchamp
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My stay in Munich was the scene of my complete liberation.
-- Marcel Duchamp
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Painter after painter, since the beginning of the century, has tended toward abstraction. First, the Impressionists simplified the landscape in terms of color, and then the Fauves simplified it again by adding distortion, which, for some reason, is a characteristic of our century.
-- Marcel Duchamp
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Art is all a matter of personality.
-- Marcel Duchamp
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In France, in Europe, the young artists of any generation always act as grandsons of some great man - Poussin, for example, or Victor Hugo. They can't help it. Even if they don't believe in that, it gets in their system. And so when they come to produce something of their own, the tradition is nearly indestructible.
-- Marcel Duchamp
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Rational intelligence is dangerous and leads to ratiocination. The painter is a medium who doesn't realize what he is doing. No translation can express the mystery of sensibility, a word, still unreliable, which is nevertheless the basis of painting or poetry, like a kind of alchemy.
-- Marcel Duchamp
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Distortion came first from the fauves, who, in turn, were under the strong influence of primitive art.
-- Marcel Duchamp
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Humor and laughter - not necessarily derogatory derision - are my pet tools. This may come from my general philosophy of never taking the world too seriously - for fear of dying of boredom.
-- Marcel Duchamp
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Man can never expect to start from scratch; he must start from ready-made things, like even his own mother and father.
-- Marcel Duchamp
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'Art or anti-art?' was the question I asked when I returned from Munich in 1912 and decided to abandon pure painting or painting for its own sake. I thought of introducing elements alien to painting as the only way out of a pictorial and chromatic dead end.
-- Marcel Duchamp
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Words such as truth, art, veracity, or anything are stupid in themselves.
-- Marcel Duchamp
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I like living, breathing better than working... Each second, each breath is a work which is inscribed nowhere, which is neither visual nor cerebral. It's a kind of constant euphoria.
-- Marcel Duchamp
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You have to approach something with indifference, as if you had no aesthetic emotion. The choice of readymades is always based on visual indifference and, at the same time, on the total absence of good or bad taste.
-- Marcel Duchamp
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If your choice enters into it, then taste is involved - bad taste, good taste, uninteresting taste. Taste is the enemy of art, A-R-T.
-- Marcel Duchamp
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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
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When you make a painting, even abstract, there is always a sort of necessary filling-in.
-- Marcel Duchamp
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In the midst of each epoch, I fully realize that a new epoch will dawn.
-- Marcel Duchamp
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There is something like an explosion in the meaning of certain words: they have a greater value than their meaning in the dictionary.
-- Marcel Duchamp
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I shy away from the word 'creation.' In the ordinary, social meaning of the word - well, it's very nice, but fundamentally, I don't believe in the creative function of the artist. He's a man like any other.
-- Marcel Duchamp
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I became a librarian at the Sainte-Genevieve Library in Paris. I made this gesture to rid myself of a certain milieu, a certain attitude, to have a clean conscience, but also to make a living. I was twenty-five. I had been told that one must make a living, and I believed it.
-- Marcel Duchamp
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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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I was highly attracted to chess for forty or forty-five years; then, little by little, my enthusiasm lessened.
-- Marcel Duchamp
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I really had no program or any established plan. I didn't even ask myself if I should sell my paintings or not.
-- Marcel Duchamp
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Things were sort of Bohemian in Montmartre - one lived, one painted, one was a painter - all that doesn't mean anything, fundamentally.
-- Marcel Duchamp
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One is a painter because one wants so-called freedom; one doesn't want to go to the office every morning.
-- Marcel Duchamp
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If only America would realize that the art of Europe is finished - dead - and that America is the country of the art of the future, instead of trying to base everything she does on European traditions!
-- Marcel Duchamp
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The danger is in pleasing an immediate public: the immediate public that comes around you and takes you in and accepts you and gives you success and everything. Instead of that, you should wait for fifty years or a hundred years for your true public. That is the only public that interests me.
-- Marcel Duchamp
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It's a product of two poles - there's the pole of the one who makes the work, and the pole of the one who looks at it. I give the latter as much importance as the one who makes it.
-- Marcel Duchamp
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What would I do with money? I have enough for my needs. I don't want any more. If I had a lot, I would have to care for it, worry about it.
-- Marcel Duchamp
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Painting is a language of its own. You cannot interpret one form of expression with another form of expression.
-- Marcel Duchamp
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My position is the lack of a position, but, of course, you can't even talk about it; the minute you talk, you spoil the whole game.
-- Marcel Duchamp
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The curious thing about the Ready-Made is that I've never been able to arrive at a definition or explanation that fully satisfies me. There's still magic in the idea, so I'd rather keep it that way than try to be exoteric about it.
-- Marcel Duchamp
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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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What am I? Do I know? I am a man: quite simply, a 'breather.'
-- Marcel Duchamp
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I happen to have been born a Cartesian. The French education is based on a sequence of strict logic. You carry it with you.
-- Marcel Duchamp
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I refused to accept anything, doubted everything. So, doubting everything, I had to find something that had not existed before, something I had not thought of before. Any idea that came to me, the thing would be to turn it around and try to see it with another set of senses.
-- Marcel Duchamp
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The entire world of art has reached such a low level, it has been commercialized to such a degree that art and everything related to it has become one of the most trivial activities of our epoch.
-- Marcel Duchamp
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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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One does not contemplate it like a picture. The idea of contemplation disappears completely. Simply take note that it's a bottle rack, or that it's a bottle rack that has changed its destination... It's not the visual question of the readymade that counts; it's the fact that it exists, even.
-- Marcel Duchamp
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One must pass through the network of influence. One is obligated to be influenced, and one accepts this influence very naturally. From the start, one doesn't realize this. The first thing to know: one doesn't realize one is influenced. One thinks he is already liberated, and one is far from it!
-- Marcel Duchamp
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When the vision of the 'Nude' flashed upon me, I knew that it would break forever the enslaving chains of Naturalism.
-- Marcel Duchamp
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For me, the 'Three Stoppages' was a first gesture liberating me from the past.
-- Marcel Duchamp
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I never finished the 'Large Glass' because, after working on it for eight years, I probably got interested in something else; also, I was tired. It may be that, subconsciously, I never intended to finish it because the word 'finish' implies an acceptance of traditional methods and all the paraphernalia that accompany them.
-- Marcel Duchamp
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Tradition is the great misleader because it's too easy to follow what has already been done - even though you may think you're giving it a kick. I was really trying to invent, instead of merely expressing myself.
-- Marcel Duchamp
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I was never interested in looking at myself in an aesthetic mirror. My intention was always to get away from myself, though I knew perfectly well that I was using myself. Call it a little game between 'I' and 'me.'
-- Marcel Duchamp
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The last hundred years have been retinal; even the cubists were. The surrealists tried to free themselves, and earlier so had the dadaists, but unfortunately, these latter were nihilists and didn't produce enough to prove their point, which, by the way, they didn't have to prove - according to their theory.
-- Marcel Duchamp
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My Ready-Mades have nothing to do with the 'objet trouve' because the so-called 'found object' is completely directed by personal taste. Personal taste decides that this is a beautiful object and is unique.
-- Marcel Duchamp
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Since the tubes of paint used by the artist are manufactured and ready-made products, we must conclude that all the paintings in the world are 'ready-mades aided' and also works of assemblage.
-- Marcel Duchamp
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It is curious to note how fragile the memory is, even for the important times in one's life. This is, moreover, what explains the fortunate fantasy of history.
-- Marcel Duchamp
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I would have to think about it for two or three months before I decided to do something which would have meaning. And it would have to be more than just an impression or pleasure. I would need an objective, a meaning. That is the only thing that could help me.
-- Marcel Duchamp
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In French, there is an old expression, la patte, meaning the artist's touch, his personal style, his 'paw'. I wanted to get away from la patte and from all that retinal painting.
-- Marcel Duchamp
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The basis for my own work during the years just before coming to America in 1915 was a desire to break up forms - to 'decompose' them much along the lines the cubists had done. But I wanted to go further - much further - in fact, in quite another direction altogether.
-- Marcel Duchamp
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I came to feel an artist might use anything - a dot, a line, the most conventional or unconventional symbol - t say what he wanted to say.
-- Marcel Duchamp
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Words are the tools of 'to be' - of expression. They are completely built on the fact that you 'are,' and in order to express it, you have built a little alphabet, and you make your words from it.
-- Marcel Duchamp
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Artists of all times are like the gamblers of Monte Carlo, and this blind lottery allows some to succeed and ruins others. In my opinion, neither the winners nor the losers are worth worrying about.
-- Marcel Duchamp
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It is a matter of great indifference to me what criticism is printed in the papers and the magazines. I am simply working out my own ideas in my own way.
-- Marcel Duchamp
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I wanted to use my possibility to be an individual, and I suppose I have, no?
-- Marcel Duchamp
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Art is a habit-forming drug. Art has absolutely no existence as veracity, as truth. People always speak of it with this great, religious reverence, but why should it be so revered?
-- Marcel Duchamp
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The 'Glass' is not my autobiography, nor is it self-expression. Far from it.
-- Marcel Duchamp
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I'm nothing else but an artist, I'm sure, and delighted to be.
-- Marcel Duchamp
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I am afraid to end up being in need to sell canvases - in other words, to be a society painter.
-- Marcel Duchamp
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When cubism began to take a social form, Metzinger was especially talked about. He explained cubism, while Picasso never explained anything. It took a few years to see that not talking was better than talking too much.
-- Marcel Duchamp
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I couldn't go into the haphazard drawing or the paintings, the splashing of paint. I wanted to go back to a completely dry drawing, a dry conception of art.
-- Marcel Duchamp
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I don't know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility is a superpower.
-- Banksy
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Should graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It's way more important than that.
-- Banksy
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There's obviously nothing wrong with selling your art - only an idiot with a trust fund would tell you otherwise. But it's confusing to know how far you should take it.
-- Banksy
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Graffiti's always been a temporary art form. You make your mark and then they scrub it off.
-- Banksy
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I wouldn't want to be remembered as the guy who contaminated a perfectly legitimate form of protest art with money and celebrities.
-- Banksy
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All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They've been used to start revolutions and to stop wars.
-- Banksy
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I love the way capitalism finds a place - even for its enemies.
-- Banksy
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You live in the city and all the time there are signs telling you what to do and billboards trying to sell you something.
-- Banksy
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I give away thousands of paintings for free.
-- Banksy
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I started painting graffiti in the classic New York style of big letters and characters but I was never very good at it.
-- Banksy
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It's great, I guess, when your paintings are hanging up in a museum.
-- Banksy
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The way I make art - the way a lot of people make art - is as an extension of language and communication, where references are incredibly important.
-- Shepard Fairey
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Propaganda has a negative connotation, which it partially deserves, but I think there is some propaganda that is very positive. I feel that if you can do something that gets people's attention, then maybe they'll go and find out more about the person.
-- Shepard Fairey
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When you walk down the street and see something in a crazy spot, there's something powerful about that. The street will always be an important part of getting art out there for me.
-- Shepard Fairey
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For me, there has always been a disconnect with the sort of elitist structure of the high-art world - and my distaste for that is at odds with my feeling that art should aspire to do great things.
-- Shepard Fairey
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Most campaigns rely on photographs because the moment you do something that is a graphic interpretation where any artistic license has been taken, I think a lot of people are scared that it's going to be perceived as propaganda.
-- Shepard Fairey
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I admire Ai Weiwei for his art and his activism. His art is beautiful in form, and in function embodies the principles of populism and social consciousness I aspire to in my own practice.
-- Shepard Fairey
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When I think about how I want to reach an audience, I just wanted to make pieces that were inspired by something that gave me so much pleasure.
-- Shepard Fairey
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I've never really considered myself just a street artist. I consider myself a populist.
-- Shepard Fairey
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Art shows and the institutions end up being the couriers for culture for the next generation and are an important component as well. It may seem ironic from one perspective, but I think if you look at my overall strategy, it's actually not out of step.
-- Shepard Fairey
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I don't have this obsessive need to do street art all the time because it's already opened doors for me.
-- Shepard Fairey
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The problem with copyright enforcement is that when the parameters aren't incredibly well defined, it means big corporations, who have deeper pockets and better lawyers, can bully people.
-- Shepard Fairey
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If you're creating something that has some sort of cultural currency - if the idea is getting out there - then that will probably yield money in some form, whether it's through selling art or selling books or being asked to give a lecture.
-- Shepard Fairey
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When I was 14, I thought I looked terrible. I wore these typical Slavic shoes with metal bottoms so you could always hear me coming and this really ugly princess skirt and blouse with the top button closed. I had a boy haircut, a baby face covered with pimples, and a really big nose.
-- Marina Abramovic
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If you're a baker, making bread, you're a baker. If you make the best bread in the world, you're not an artist, but if you bake the bread in the gallery, you're an artist. So the context makes the difference.
-- Marina Abramovic
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People have so much pain inside them that they're not even aware of.
-- Marina Abramovic
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When you have a nonverbal conversation with a total stranger, then he can't cover himself with words, he can't create a wall.
-- Marina Abramovic
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You see, what is my purpose of performance artist is to stage certain difficulties and stage the fear the primordial fear of pain, of dying, all of which we have in our lives, and then stage them in front of audience and go through them and tell the audience, 'I'm your mirror; if I can do this in my life, you can do it in yours.'
-- Marina Abramovic
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In theater, blood is ketchup; in performance, everything's real.
-- Marina Abramovic
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People ask why there are so few female artists who succeed. It's because women are not ready to sacrifice as much as men. Women want a man, they want a family, they want to have children, they want to be loved, and to be an artist. And they can't; it's impossible.
-- Marina Abramovic
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The function of the artist in a disturbed society is to give awareness of the universe, to ask the right questions, and to elevate the mind.
-- Marina Abramovic
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We are used to cleaning the outside house, but the most important house to clean is yourself - your own house - which we never do.
-- Marina Abramovic
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Today, our attention is less than the television advertisement. We're looking at six or seven problems constantly. We're living in the disturbed societies of cities. I think modern technology is one of the worst things human beings have invented.
-- Marina Abramovic
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We are actually living in a million parallel realities every single minute.
-- Marina Abramovic
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It's very important that young artists push boundaries, because sometimes you have this urge to do something - like the impulsive and dangerous urges I had as a child - and if you don't follow through with it you might miss out on a developmental experience.
-- Marina Abramovic
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My mother and father had a terrible marriage. They celebrated their wedding anniversary one year with their friends. Why did they celebrate? Maybe because they had lasted so many years without killing each other.
-- Marina Abramovic
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I believe so much in the power of performance I don't want to convince people. I want them to experience it and come away convinced on their own.
-- Marina Abramovic
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From the very early stage when I started doing performance art in the '70s, the general attitude - not just me, but also my colleagues - was that there should not be any documentation, that the performance itself is artwork and there should be no documentation.
-- Marina Abramovic
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You know I very much respect Yvonne Rainer, she is very important - in American dance, the entire development of modern dance, and creating a wonderful physical language.
-- Marina Abramovic
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Performance has to be mainstream art. This is what I'm fighting for.
-- Marina Abramovic
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We always project into the future or reflect in the past, but we are so little in the present.
-- Marina Abramovic
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I notice if I'm too fat or if I'm too ugly or there's skin hanging or whatever. When my clothes start not fitting, I get really self-conscious about what I eat.
-- Marina Abramovic
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People put so much effort into starting a relationship and so little effort into ending one.
-- Marina Abramovic
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Your ego can become an obstacle to your work. If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity.
-- Marina Abramovic
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To control the breathing is to control the mind. With different patterns of breathing, you can fall in love, you can hate someone, you can feel the whole spectrum of feelings just by changing your breathing.
-- Marina Abramovic
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Happiness comes from the full understanding of your own being.
-- Marina Abramovic
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I had a very difficult relationship with my mother. She used to wake me up in the middle of the night if I wasn't sleeping straight and was messing up the sheets. Now when I stay in hotels I sleep so straight they don't even think I've used the bed.
-- Marina Abramovic
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The big problem of our modern society is that we feel that we are separated from the nature. But it's just the opposite. We are interrelated and our DNA is the same. And only when human beings understand that, the nature will not be obstacle.
-- Marina Abramovic
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You know, James Franco is one of the most interesting figures because he has no rules. He breaks all the borders.
-- Marina Abramovic
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First of all, to do performance art, you really have to give 100 percent. I only know that I have to give 100 percent and then what happens, happens.
-- Marina Abramovic
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You know how you feel somebody looking at you, and you turn, and somebody actually is? It's the same at an art gallery. You're looking at one portrait, turn around, and there is a work of art directly behind you. Because it's all energy. Every single thing has energy.
-- Marina Abramovic
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If you see a Renaissance body, this is completely ugly in this time. Everybody has to be skinny. But the Renaissance body with incredible flow of the meat everywhere, it was beauty.
-- Marina Abramovic
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So many artists say they're not aware of audience. For me is unbelievable.