I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.
Marcel Duchamp
Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968), French artist. repr. In Robert Motherwell, Dada Painters and Poets (1951). Quoted in Harriet Janis and Sidney Janis, “Marcel Duchamp: Anti-Artist,” View (New York, March 21, 1945).
Also know as
I can’t live by my own rules.
A quote from Vernon J, yes that Vernon J