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A blind man can make art if what is in his mind can be passed to another mind in some tangible form.

~Sol Lewitt

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Artists teach critics what to think. Critics repeat what the artists teach them.

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Minimal art went nowhere.

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You shouldn't be a prisoner of your own ideas.

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When artists make art, they shouldn't question whether it is permissible to do one thing or another.

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In my case, I used the elements of these simple forms - square, cube, line and color - to produce logical systems. Most of these systems were finite; that is, they were complete using all possible variations. This kept them simple.

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Minimalism wasn't a real idea - it ended before it started.

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All of the significant art of today stems from Conceptual art. This includes the art of installation, political, feminist and socially directed art.

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Also, since art is a vehicle for the transmission of ideas through form, the reproduction of the form only reinforces the concept. It is the idea that is being reproduced. Anyone who understands the work of art owns it. We all own the Mona Lisa.

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Artists of many diverse types began using simple forms to their own ends.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Artist

Born: September 9th, 1928

Died: April 8th, 2007

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