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The artist is seen like a producer of commodities, like a factory that turns our refrigerators. 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.

— Sol LeWitt Art Institute of Chicago. Video Data Bank (1992)

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

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The idea becomes a machine that makes the art.

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

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