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I don't know if you've noticed it. But Duchamp was magnificent. -- Robert Barnes
The thinking of John Cage derived from Duchamp and Dada. I was not interested in that. -- Sol LeWitt
Appropriation was the language of my generation in many ways. It came out of Duchamp, Warhol, Johns, Lichtenstein. -- Deborah Kass
Futurists wanted to suggest movement by means of a dynamic painting; Duchamp applies the notion of delay - or, rather, or analysis - to movement. -- Octavio Paz
In the works of Duchamp, space begins to walk and take on form; it becomes a machine that spins arguments and philosophizes; it resists movement with delay and delay with irony. -- Octavio Paz
The second time I was there I met Marcel Duchamp, and we immediately fell for each other. Which doesn't mean a thing because I think anybody who met Marcel fell for him. -- Beatrice Wood
Art for Duchamp, all the arts, obey the same law: meta-irony is inherent in their very spirit. It is an irony that destroys its own negation and, hence, returns in the affirmative. -- Octavio Paz
Varese, Apollinaire, Ezra Pound, Leger, Gleizes, Severini, Villon, Duchamp, Duchamp-Villon, Marie Laurencin, Cocteau and many others were to me household names in the literal sense - names of familiar figures around the house. -- Jacques Barzun
Damien Hirst is the Elvis of the English art world, its ayatollah, deliverer, and big-thinking entrepreneurial potty-mouthed prophet and front man. Hirst synthesizes punk, Pop Art, Jeff Koons, Marcel Duchamp, Francis Bacon, and Catholicism. -- Jerry Saltz
All art (after Duchamp) is conceptual (in nature) because art only exists conceptually. -- Joseph Kosuth
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Duchamp is known for calling a thing art, rather than making it. A lot of that is picked up in pop art, too. -- Claes Oldenburg
It became like a symbolic thing, to be â??an artist.â? After Duchamp, I realized that being an artist is more about a lifestyle and attitude than producing some product. -- Ai Weiwei
Found objects, chance creations, ready-mades (mass-produced items promoted into art objects, such as Duchamp's "Fountain"-urinal as sculpture) abolish the separation between art and life. The commonplace is miraculous if rightly seen. -- Charles Simic
And then there is that one-man movement, Marcel Duchamp for me a truly modern movement because it implies that each artist can do what he thinks he ought to a movement for each person and open for everybody. -- Willem de Kooning
In the '50s, to appropriate was a real no-no. However, once you go from Duchamp to Jasper Johns to Warhol, appropriation becomes not only a common thing to do, but possibly the central way of working in the era we call postmodernism. -- Irving Sandler
Alec Nevala-Lee comes roaring out of the gate with a novel that's as thrilling as it is thought-provoking, as unexpected as it is erudite. The Icon Thief is a wild ride through a fascinating and morally complex world, a puzzle Duchamp himself would have applauded. Bravo. -- Jesse Kellerman

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