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Buying books was a way anyone could acquire a work of art for very little.

~Sol Lewitt

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Just as the development of earth art and installation art stemmed from the idea of taking art out of the galleries, the basis of my involvement with public art is a continuation of wall drawings.

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The narrative of serial art works more like music than like literature.

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Conceptual art became the liberating idea that gave the art of the next 40 years its real impetus.

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The other great development has been in photography, but that too was influenced by Conceptual art.

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The artist is seen like a producer of commodities, like a factory that turns our refrigerators.

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I believe that the artist's involvement in the capitalist structure is disadvantageous to the artist and forces him to produce objects in order to live.

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The thinking of John Cage derived from Duchamp and Dada. I was not interested in that.

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I was not interested in irony; I wanted to emphasize the primacy of the idea in making art.

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The system is the work of art; the visual work of art is the proof of the System. The visual aspect can't be understood without understanding the system. It isn't what it looks like but what it is that is of basic importance.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Artist

Born: September 9th, 1928

Died: April 8th, 2007

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