All of the significant art of today stems from Conceptual art. This includes the art of installation, political, feminist and socially directed art.
Sol LeWitt
A blind man can make art if what is in his mind can be passed to another mind in some tangible form.
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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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Buying books was a way anyone could acquire a work of art for very little.
Conceptual art became the liberating idea that gave the art of the next 40 years its real impetus.
During the '70s I was interested in words and meaning as a way of making art.
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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I was not interested in irony; I wanted to emphasize the primacy of the idea in making art.
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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Minimal art went nowhere.
The narrative of serial art works more like music than like literature.
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The other great development has been in photography, but that too was influenced by Conceptual art.
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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When artists make art, they shouldn't question whether it is permissible to do one thing or another.
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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