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Marcel Duchamp on contradicting yourself

Taste is a rut, and the way out is to disagree with yourself

“I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.” Duchamp, who put a urinal in a gallery and then spent twenty years quietly playing chess, treats personal taste as the trap rather than the goal — the thing most likely to make you produce the same work twice. The remedy he describes is deliberate, not accidental: pick the option you would not have picked.

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