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Marcel Duchamp Quotes: I thought to discourage aesthetics... I threw the bottlerack and the urinal in their faces and now they admire them for their aesthetic beauty.
         

I thought to discourage aesthetics... I threw the bottlerack and the urinal in their faces and now they admire them for their aesthetic beauty.


Marcel Duchamp
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I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products.

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You cannot define electricity. The same can be said of art. It is a kind of inner current in a human being, or something which needs no definition.

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