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The artist’s will is secondary to the process he initiates from idea to completion.. ..His wilfulness may only be ego.. ..The process is mechanical and should not be tampered with. It should run its course.

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Minimalism wasn't a real idea – it ended before it started.

Bomb (2003)

The artist’s aim is not to instruct the viewer, but to give information, whether the viewer understands the information is incidental to the artist.

The idea becomes a machine that makes the art.

Sol LeWitt (1965)

Artists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach.

The ideas need not be complex. Most ideas that are successful are ludicrously simple. Successful ideas generally have the appearance of simplicity because they seem inevitable.

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