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" A blind man can make art if what is in his mind can be passed to another mind in some tangible form. "
Some
Mind
Man
" All of the significant art of today stems from Conceptual art. This includes the art of installation, political, feminist and socially directed art. "
Art
Significant
Political
" 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. "
Through
Ideas
Only
" Artists of many diverse types began using simple forms to their own ends. "
Own
Simple
Many
" Artists teach critics what to think. Critics repeat what the artists teach them. "
Critics
Teach
Repeat
" Buying books was a way anyone could acquire a work of art for very little. "
Little
Work
Way
" Conceptual art became the liberating idea that gave the art of the next 40 years its real impetus. "
Real
Gave
Art
" During the '70s I was interested in words and meaning as a way of making art. "
Words
Art
Interested
" Every generation renews itself in its own way; there's always a reaction against whatever is standard. "
Way
Reaction
Own
" 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. "
Book
Work
Starting
" 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. "
Believe
I Believe
Him
" 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. "
Think
Want
Too Much
" 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. "
Simple
Possible
Line
" I was not interested in irony; I wanted to emphasize the primacy of the idea in making art. "
Not Interested
Art
Irony
" 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. "
Art
Involvement
Development
" Minimal art went nowhere. "
Art
Nowhere
Minimal
" Minimalism wasn't a real idea - it ended before it started. "
Before
Real
Started
" The artist is seen like a producer of commodities, like a factory that turns our refrigerators. "
Seen
Producer
Like
" The narrative of serial art works more like music than like literature. "
More
Literature
Art
" The other great development has been in photography, but that too was influenced by Conceptual art. "
Great
Art
Photography
" 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. "
Looks
System
Work
" The thinking of John Cage derived from Duchamp and Dada. I was not interested in that. "
Not Interested
Thinking
John
" 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. "
You
Doing
Thinking
" When artists make art, they shouldn't question whether it is permissible to do one thing or another. "
Make
Artists
Art
" You shouldn't be a prisoner of your own ideas. "
Ideas
Prisoner
Your
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