“The artist is seen like a producer of commodities, like a factory that turns our refrigerators. I believe that the artist's involvement in the capitalist structure is disadvantageous to the artist and forces him to produce objects in order to live.”

—  Sol LeWitt

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Source: Art Institute of Chicago. Video Data Bank (1992), On Art and Artists. p. 1991

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