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Sol Lewitt : In conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work.. .. All of the planning and decisions are made beforehand and the execution is a perfunctory affair . The idea becomes a machine that makes the art.
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Sol Lewitt: In conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work.... All of the planning and decisions are made beforehand and the execution is a perfunctory affair. The idea becomes a machine that makes the art.
Joseph Kosuth:The value of particular artists after Duchamp can be weighed according to how much they questioned the nature of art.
Lawrence Weiner:(1) The artist may construct the piece.(2) The piece may be fabricated.(3) The piece may not be built.[Each being equal and consistent with the intent of the artist, the decision as to condition rests with the receiver upon the occasion of receivership.]
Art & Language:Poetry expresses the emotional truth of the self. A craft honed by especially sensitive individuals, it puts metaphor and image in the service of song.Or at least that's the story we've inherited from Romanticism…. But what would a non-expressive poetry look like? A poetry of intellect rather than emotion?
Douglas Huebler:The world is full of objects, more or less interesting; I do not wish to add any more.I prefer, simply, to state the existence of things in terms of time and place.
Richard Long:Nature has always been a subject of art, from the first cave paintings to twentieth-century landscape photography. I wanted to use the landscape as an artist in new ways.
Ed Ruscha:Art has to be something that makes you scratch your head.
Keith Arnatt:The continual reference to the disappearance of the art object suggested to me the eventual disappearance of the artist himself.
Dan Graham:Through the actual experience of running a gallery, I learned that if a work of art wasn't written about and reproduced in a magazine it would have difficulty retaining the status of “art.” It seemed that in order to be defined as having value, that is as “art,” a work had only to be exhibited in a gallery and then to be written about and reproduced as a photograph in an art magazine. Then this record of the no longer extant installation, along with more accretions of information after the fact, became the basis for its fame, and to a large extent its economic value.
Damien Hirst: I don’t think the hand of the artist is important on any level because you are trying to communicate an idea.
Jeff Wall:It is “no longer necessary to separate oneself from the people through the acquisition of skills and sensibilities rooted in craft-guild exclusivity. In fact, it [is] absolutely necessary not to do so, but rather to animate with radical imagination those common techniques and abilities made available by modernity itself.”
