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name: "Marcel Duchamp on contradicting yourself"
subtitle: "Taste is a rut, and the way out is to disagree with yourself"
date: 2026-07-28
link: "https://wordsmith.org/words/misdoubt.html"
linkText: "wordsmith.org"
source: "A.Word.A.Day"
topics: [words-and-humor, design-and-art]
tags: [creativity, taste, artists]
description: "A.Word.A.Day's daily quote from Marcel Duchamp, on forcing himself to contradict himself so he would not simply repeat his own preferences."
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"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.