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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.
- Duchamp
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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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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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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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Minimalism wasn't a real idea - it ended before it started.
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I became interested in making books, starting about 1965, when I did the Serial Project #1, deciding that I needed a small book to show how the work could be understood and how the system worked.
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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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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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I didn't want to save art - I respected the older artists too much to think art needed saving. But I knew it was finished, even though, at that time, I didn't know what I would do.
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Every generation renews itself in its own way; there's always a reaction against whatever is standard.
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During the '70s I was interested in words and meaning as a way of making art.
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Unless you're involved with thinking about what you're doing, you end up doing the same thing over and over, and that becomes tedious and, in the end, defeating.
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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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You shouldn't be a prisoner of your own ideas.
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Minimal art went nowhere.
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