I was not interested in irony; I wanted to emphasize the primacy of the idea in making art.
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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.Sol LeWitt
Every generation renews itself in its own way; there's always a reaction against whatever is standard.
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Minimalism wasn't a real idea - it ended before it started.
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The thinking of John Cage derived from Duchamp and Dada. I was not interested in that.
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Artists of many diverse types began using simple forms to their own ends.
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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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