Sol LeWitt Quotes


Buying books was a way anyone could acquire a work of art for very little. Sol LeWitt Work 83
Artists teach critics what to think. Critics repeat what the artists teach them. Sol LeWitt Uncategorized 81
All of the significant art of today stems from Conceptual art. This includes the art of installation, political, feminist and socially directed art. Sol LeWitt Art 78
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. Sol LeWitt Uncategorized 68
I was not interested in irony; I wanted to emphasize the primacy of the idea in making art. Sol LeWitt Uncategorized 61
The thinking of John Cage derived from Duchamp and Dada. I was not interested in that. Sol LeWitt Uncategorized 47
Minimal art went nowhere. Sol LeWitt Art 39
Also, since art is a vehicle for the transmission of ideas through form, the reproduction of the form only reinforces the concept. It is the idea that is being reproduced. Anyone who understands the work of art owns it. We all own the Mona Lisa. Sol LeWitt Art 36
A blind man can make art if what is in his mind can be passed to another mind in some tangible form. Sol LeWitt Art 36
I became interested in making books, starting about 1965, when I did the Serial Project #1, deciding that I needed a small book to show how the work could be understood and how the system worked. Sol LeWitt Uncategorized 33
Just as the development of earth art and installation art stemmed from the idea of taking art out of the galleries, the basis of my involvement with public art is a continuation of wall drawings. Sol LeWitt Art 33
The artist is seen like a producer of commodities, like a factory that turns our refrigerators. Sol LeWitt Uncategorized 33
The other great development has been in photography, but that too was influenced by Conceptual art. Sol LeWitt Uncategorized 33
Artists of many diverse types began using simple forms to their own ends. Sol LeWitt Uncategorized 32
The narrative of serial art works more like music than like literature. Sol LeWitt Art 23
Conceptual art became the liberating idea that gave the art of the next 40 years its real impetus. Sol LeWitt Art 23

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