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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ For the Chinese, the Greeks, the Mayans, or the Egyptians, nature was a living totality, a creative being. For this reason, art, according to Aristotle, is imitation; the poet imitates the creative gesture of nature.

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• ‟ What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.

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• ‟ Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.

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• ‟ The modern tradition is the tradition of revolt. The French Revolution is still our model today: history is violent change, and this change goes by the name of progress. I do not know whether these notions really apply to art.

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