"One does something for six months, a year, and one goes on to something else. That's what Picabia did all his life."
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Quote of Marcel Duchamp, as cited in TaTa Dada: The Real Life and Celestial Adventures of Tristan Tzara, Marius Hentea, MIT Press, 12 Sep 2014, p. 121
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Francis Picabia
1879 – 1953
eigentlich:Francis-Marie Martinez Picabia
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