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Words for mental processes are all derived from physical things.
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Visiting a museum is a matter of going from void to void.
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Artists are expected to fit into fraudulent categories.
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Questions about form seem as hopelessly inadequate as questions about content.
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When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us.
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Some artists imagine they've got a hold on this apparatus, which in fact has got a hold of them. As a result, they end up supporting a cultural prison that is out of their control.
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I am for an art that takes into account the direct effect of the elements as they exist from day to day apart from representation.
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Banal, Fall, Feeble, Function, Into, Meaning, Mental, Own, Phenomena, Their