“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.”

—  Lawrence Weiner

Lawrence Weiner, cited in: Nika Knight. " Slowly Adapting Art: Moving with the Times: Re-installing Originals http://www.oberlin.edu/stupub/ocreview/2007/04/27/arts/Slowly_Adapting_Art_Moving.html," in: The Oberlin Review, April 27, 2007.

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