http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/4059997.stm explains my nickname. He signed "Fountain" with the name "R. Mutt". I think it's pretty bad @ss to do something like that at the time.
Imagine you have all these yuppies at the exhibition and they boasting..."Francois...ah yes....this is very avant garde...yes....oui" And then my boy Duchamp just roll though like "Excuse me, passin thru." carrying a urinal and drop in down...mark a lil "R.Mutt" on d side and ride out. "Yea....that's my entry."
People called him crazy and now he's considered the most influential artist of the 20th century....his sheit sells for record prices.
He was a pioneer. The man was ahead of his time...and people always confuse genius with insanity until the press gives them merit. It is indeed a thin line that's difficult to see.
there u go... 
