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"The thinking of John Cage derived from Duchamp and Dada. I was not interested in that."
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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."
"The other great development has been in photography, but that too was influenced by Conceptual art."
"Conceptual art became the liberating idea that gave the art of the next 40 years its real impetus."
"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."
"A blind man can make art if what is in his mind can be passed to another mind in some tangible form."
"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."
"The artist is seen like a producer of commodities, like a factory that turns our refrigerators."
"The system is the work of art; the visual work of art is the proof of the System. The visual aspect can't be understood without understanding the system. It isn't what it looks like but what it is that is of basic importance."
"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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