One usually understands the art of the past by applying the conventions of the present thus misunderstanding the art of the past.
Sol LeWitt Quotes
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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