"Once it is out of his hand the artist has no control over the way a viewer will perceive the work. Different people will understand the same thing in a different way."

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

Sol LeWitt

#Artist Quotes #Hands Quotes #People Quotes

“When someone like Brian Oldfield can beat me, I will retire.”
“One performer whose band played my music better than I could myself was Art Farmer. He recorded 'Sing Me Softly of the Blues' and 'Ad Infinitum'.”
“There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics.”

Source : Sir Robert Peel, George Peel (Hon.), Charles Stuart Parker (1899). “Sir Robert Peel: From his private papers”
“A lot of people give up just before they're about to make it. You know you never know when that next obstacle is going to be the last one.”

Source : Chuck Norris (2014). “The Official Chuck Norris Fact Book: 101 of Chuck's Favorite Facts and Stories”, p.18, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
“I'm not claiming that football is the nation's salvation in this area, but it's one of them, one little thing that apparently has captured the imagination of a large sector of our society. But when football can't be a relatively pure outlet, a fun thing, then it hurts itself.”
“I like women who are okay with who they are.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The success of the dinner depends as much upon the company as the cook. Discordant elements - people invited alphabetically, or to pay off debts - are fatal.”

Source : Ward McAllister (1890). “Society as I Have Found it”
“The main difference seems to be that, whereas photography still claims some sort of objectivity, digital imaging is an overtly fictional process. As a practice that is known to be capable of nothing but fabrication, digitization abandons even the rhetoric of truth that has been such an important part of photography's cultural success.”

Source : Geoffrey Batchen (2002). “Each Wild Idea: Writing, Photography, History”, p.134, MIT Press

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