- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Point Of View
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- Nov 07, 2020
From a purely ethnological point of view, I was not a period-born Dada.
- Attitude
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dada was an extreme protest against the physical side of painting. It was a metaphysical attitude.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- First Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
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!
- Forever
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the vision of the 'Nude' flashed upon me, I knew that it would break forever the enslaving chains of Naturalism.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.'
- Influence
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Distortion came first from the fauves, who, in turn, were under the strong influence of primitive art.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Derision
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man can never expect to start from scratch; he must start from ready-made things, like even his own mother and father.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020