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Sol LeWitt

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The ideas need not be complex. Most ideas that are successful are ludicrously simple. Successful ideas generally have the appearance of simplicity because they seem inevitable.
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“Paragraphs on Conceptual Art,” Artforum (June 1967)

 
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