"Most ideas that are successful are ludicrously simple. Successful ideas generally have the appearance of simplicity because they seem inevitable. In terms of idea the artist is free to even surprise himself. Ideas are discovered by intuition."

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Source : Sol LeWitt (1995). “Sol Lewitt: critical texts”, Power House Books

Sol LeWitt

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“Iâ€™ve always considered it a great privilege to be a musician, Iâ€™ve never lost sight of that.”
“There are points in your life, especially if you have creative ambitions, where selfishness is necessary.”

Source : "Kris Kristofferson: What I've Learned" by Scott Carrier, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.
“The rosary was said every evening. I always liked that sentence about the medieval Churches, that they were the Bibles of the poor. The Church was my first book and I would think it is still my most important book.”
“U.S. agricultural products, including safe, high-quality Montana beef, face unscientific trade restrictions in many important markets.”
“I like big doses of grief when I read: Richard Yates, Flannery O'Connor, Kenzabaro Oe, Thomas Bernhard.”
“To be lonely is to feel unwanted and unloved, and therefor unloveable. Loneliness is a taste of death. No wonder some people who are desperately lonely lose themselves in mental illness or violence to forget the inner pain.”
“Do not allow the accents in the brass to produce space between the notes.”
“The foundation of success in life is good health: that is the substratum fortune; it is also the basis of happiness. A person cannot accumulate a fortune very well when he is sick.”

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