“The narrative of serial art works more like music than like literature...” — Sol LeWitt Quote

The narrative of serial art works more like music than like literature.

Minimalism wasn't a real idea - it ended before it started.

The other great development has been in photography, but that too was influenced by Conceptual art.

In my case, I used the elements of these simple forms - square, cube, line and color - to produce logical systems. Most of these systems were finite; that is, they were complete using all possible variations. This kept them simple.

During the '70s I was interested in words and meaning as a way of making art.

Culture - art, music, literature - is the long game, because it's the way to change people's ideas in a more personal way.

One of the biggest problems in literature is the lack of subtlety.

Holden Caulfield is the best character in literature, period.

Underground literature only began in the '70s, when technical developments made it possible. Before that, we were involved in a game with the censors. That was our struggle.

Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates.