Buying books was a way anyone could acquire a work of art for very little.
From Sol LeWitt
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.
You shouldn't be a prisoner of your own ideas.
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.
All of the significant art of today stems from Conceptual art. This includes the art of installation, political, feminist and socially directed art.
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.
A blind man can make art if what is in his mind can be passed to another mind in some tangible form.
The artist is seen like a producer of commodities, like a factory that turns our refrigerators.
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.
The thinking of John Cage derived from Duchamp and Dada. I was not interested in that.
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