Because Quote by Marcel Duchamp

“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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Everything important that I have done can be put into a little suitcase.

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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 -…

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I am afraid to end up being in need to sell canvases - in other words, to be a society painter.

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In the midst of each epoch, I fully realize that a new epoch will dawn.

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