Top 35 Sol LeWitt Quotes

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I became interested in making books, starting about 196

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.
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Artists of many diverse types began using simple forms to their own ends.
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Conceptual art became the liberating idea that gave the art of the next 40 years its real impetus.
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The thinking of John Cage derived from Duchamp and Dada. I was not interested in that.
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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
Artists of many diverse types began using simple forms to their own ends.
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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.
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A blind man can make art if what is in his mind can be passed to another mind in some tangible form.
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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.
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The other great development has been in photography, but that too was influenced by Conceptual art.
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The thinking of John Cage derived from Duchamp and Dada. I was not interested in that.
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Minimal art went nowhere.
Sol LeWitt
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
Artists teach critics what to think. Critics repeat what the artists teach them.
Sol LeWitt
Minimal art went nowhere.
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I didn’t want to save art – I respected the older artists too much to think art needed saving. But I knew it was finished, even though, at that time, I didn’t know what I would do.
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When artists make art, they shouldn’t question whether it is permissible to do one thing or another.
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During the ’70s I was interested in words and meaning as a way of making art.
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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
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
I was not interested in irony; I wanted to emphasize the primacy of the idea in making art.
Sol LeWitt
The other great development has been in photography, but that too was influenced by Conceptual art.
Sol LeWitt
During the ’70s I was interested in words and meaning as a way of making art.
Sol LeWitt
I was not interested in irony; I wanted to emphasize the primacy of the idea in making art.
Sol LeWitt
Minimalism wasn’t a real idea – it ended before it started.
Sol LeWitt
Artists teach critics what to think. Critics repeat what the artists teach them.
Sol LeWitt
Unless you’re involved with thinking about what you’re doing, you end up doing the same thing over and over, and that becomes tedious and, in the end, defeating.
Sol LeWitt
Unless you’re involved with thinking about what you’re doing, you end up doing the same thing over and over, and that becomes tedious and, in the end, defeating.
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Every generation renews itself in its own way; there’s always a reaction against whatever is standard.
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The narrative of serial art works more like music than like literature.
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Buying books was a way anyone could acquire a work of art for very little.
Sol LeWitt
Buying books was a way anyone could acquire a work of a

Buying books was a way anyone could acquire a work of art for very little.
Sol LeWitt
I didn’t want to save art – I respected the older artists too much to think art needed saving. But I knew it was finished, even though, at that time, I didn’t know what I would do.
Sol LeWitt
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
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