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• I wasn't really that interested in objects. I was interested in ideas.
• An architect doesn't go off with a shovel and dig his foundation and lay every brick. He's still an artist.
• Artists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach.
• When words such as painting and sculpture are used, they connote a whole tradition and imply a consequent acceptance of this tradition,…
• When an artist uses a conceptual form of art, it means that all of the planning and decisions are made beforehand and…
• Once it is out of his hand the artist has no control over the way a viewer will perceive the work. Different…
• Also, since art is a vehicle for the transmission of ideas through form, the reproduction of the form only reinforces the concept.…
• Buying books was a way anyone could acquire a work of art for very little.
• Artists teach critics what to think. Critics repeat what the artists teach them.
• During the '70s I was interested in words and meaning as a way of making art.
• Every generation renews itself in its own way; there's always a reaction against whatever is standard.
• I believe that the artist's involvement in the capitalist structure is disadvantageous to the artist and forces him to produce objects in…

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