The artist is seen like a producer of commodities, like a factory that turns our refrigerators.
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Conceptual art became the liberating idea that gave the art of the next 40 years its real impetus.
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The other great development has been in photography, but that too was influenced by Conceptual art.
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When artists make art, they shouldn't question whether it is permissible to do one thing or another.
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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.
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Every generation renews itself in its own way; there's always a reaction against whatever is standard.
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All of the significant art of today stems from Conceptual art. This includes the art of installation, political, feminist and socially directed art.
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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.
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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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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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