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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. ↗

— Sol LeWitt

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Artists of many diverse types began using simple forms to their own ends. ↗

— Sol LeWitt

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Buying books was a way anyone could acquire a work of art for very little. ↗

— Sol LeWitt

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Conceptual art became the liberating idea that gave the art of the next 40 years its real impetus. ↗

— Sol LeWitt

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During the '70s I was interested in words and meaning as a way of making art. ↗

— Sol LeWitt

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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. ↗

— Sol LeWitt

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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. ↗

— Sol LeWitt

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The other great development has been in photography, but that too was influenced by Conceptual art. ↗

— Sol LeWitt

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The thinking of John Cage derived from Duchamp and Dada. I was not interested in that. ↗

— Sol LeWitt

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When artists make art, they shouldn't question whether it is permissible to do one thing or another. ↗

— Sol LeWitt

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