Quote by Marcel Duchamp
I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid confor

I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste. – Marcel Duchamp

Other quotes by Marcel Duchamp

I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art – and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position. – Marcel Duchamp

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Beauty
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The individual, man as a man, man as a brain, if you like, interests me more than what he makes, because Ive noticed that most artists only repeat themselves. – Marcel Duchamp

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People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be consistent. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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I happen to feel that the degree of a persons intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same topic. – Lisa Alther

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All concords born of contraries. – Ben Jonson

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Contradiction

What an antithetical mind! — tenderness, roughness — delicacy, coarseness — sentiment, sensuality — soaring and groveling, dirt and deity — all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay! – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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