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Abstraction is everybody's zero but nobody's nought.

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An emotion is suggested and demolished in one glance by certain words.

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Artists are expected to fit into fraudulent categories.

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Some artists imagine they've got a hold on this apparatus, which in fact has got a hold of them. As a result, they end up supporting a cultural prison that is out of their control.

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A vacant white room with lights is still a submission to the neutral. Works of art seen in such spaces seem to be going through a kind of esthetic convalescence.

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Language should find itself in the physical world, and not end up locked in an idea in somebody's head.

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Language should be an ever developing procedure and not an isolated occurrence.

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Art's development should be dialectical and not metaphysical.

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I am for an art that takes into account the direct effect of the elements as they exist from day to day apart from representation.

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Objects in a park suggest static repose rather than any ongoing dialectic. Parks are finished landscapes for finished art .

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Artist

Born: January 2nd, 1938

Died: July 20th, 1973

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