Is there a way to delete album artwork in iTunes to save space?

I've only 120 gigs in my MacAir and album art for iTunes takes up too much space. I've deleted the artwork but it just comes up again when I call up iTunes. Thanks for any suggestions.

Don't know what version of OS you're using, but in Mavericks Finder/Music/Artwork/Cache will show you that each cover uses the 960 or so kilobytes I refer to. If you delete the Cache and don't delete the artwork as above, iTunes just puts it all back when you call it up again. Right now, after following the above instructions, I still have a new Cache, except it's empty. As for each picture/song, I had to delete each song's picture, as instructed above, and I've downloaded individual songs that have come with artwork, so it's hardly a matter of 30 or 40 kbs.
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Select some items, right-click, hold down shift, then click Get Info from the context menu. (Use alt/option on a Mac)
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