“Just as Cimabue's pictures were paraded through the streets, our century has seen the airplane of Bleriot, laden with the efforts humanity made for the past thousand years, escorted in glory to the [Academy of] Arts and Sciences.  Perhaps it will be the task of an artist as detached from aesthetic preoccupations and as intent on the energetic as Marcel Duchamp, to reconcile art and people."

Guillaume Apollinaire