Expression Quote by Marcel Duchamp

“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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One is a painter because one wants so-called freedom; one doesn't want to go to the office every morning.

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Humor is the only reason to live.

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I believe that the artist doesn't know what he does. I attach even more importance to the spectator than to the artist.

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Living is more a question of what one spends than what one makes.

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

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As soon as we start putting our thoughts into words and sentences everything gets distorted, language is just no damn good—I use it because…

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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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