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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.

— Sol LeWitt

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Visual representation of it is essential if we're to come to terms with what it is we've done.

— Alex Cox

Art is messy, art is chaos - so you need a system.

— Andrew Stanton

What is art but a way of seeing?

— Saul Bellow

I don't really think about a visual aspect to the work at all; I just think about making the piece. And everything that occurs visually comes out of the subject matter you are dealing with so that I find it difficult to treat the visual element as a separate entity.

— Simon McBurney

Let's talk of a system that transforms all the social organisms into a work of art, in which the entire process of work is included... something in which the principle of production and consumption takes on a form of quality. It's a Gigantic project.

— Joseph Beuys

It's easier to make art for a society at a certain point in time with an understanding of what's going on.

— Mike Posner

A visual image is a simple thing, a picture that enters the eyes.

— Roy H. Williams

Design is a way of life, a point of view. It involves the whole complex of visual communications: talent, creative ability, manual skill, and technical knowledge. Aesthetics and economics, technology and psychology are intrinsically related to the process.

— Paul Rand

It's a visual world and people respond to visuals.

— Joe Sacco

Art, to me, is the interpretation of the impression which nature makes upon the eye and brain.

— Childe Hassam

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