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I didn't come from a background that had any idea about what contemporary art was, it was not anti or pro, it had nothing to do with it. I do remember something my mother said when I was sixteen. I was going off to college, and I said, I think I'm going to be an artist, not a professor of philosophy. They all assumed I would be a professor because I'm good at logic, and she looked at me and she said, Lawrence, you'll break your heart. And I said, Why? And she said, Art is for rich people and women.

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I do not mind objects, but I do not care to make them.

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... the fact is, they are sculptures, since they show the relationship of object to object and that is the idea and purpose of a sculpture. I've got nothing against 'poetry,' but it's only resonance and tempo. Each of my works is perhaps also indeed a poetic sculpture. It's not that I think it's a bad word, poetry, but I'm not a poet, since a poet is concerned with the relationship of human beings to human beings.

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What makes art interesting is the fact that anyone can realize it as soon as the idea has been formulated. That's the point.

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Once you know about a work of mine you own it. There's no way I can climb inside somebody's head and remove it.

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Lawrence Weiner

Lawrence Weiner

Born: February 10, 1942

Died: December 2, 2021 (aged 79)

Bio: Lawrence Weiner was one of the central figures in the formation of conceptual art in the 1960s. His work often took the form of typographic texts.

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