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

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"Chess is a school of silence."

- Marcel Duchamp

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"I don't believe in art. I believe in artists."

- Marcel Duchamp

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"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."

- Marcel Duchamp

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"You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have."

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"Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless."

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"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."

- Herman Melville

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"I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying."

- Oscar Wilde

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"Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too."

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