“The ideas need not be complex. Most ideas that are successful are ludicrously simple. Successful ideas generally have the appearance of simplicity because they seem inevitable.”

Quotes of Sol Lewitt, "Paragraphs on Conceptual Art," 1967

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American artist 1928–2007

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