One usually understands the art of the past by applying the conventions of the present thus misunderstanding the art of the past. — Sol LeWitt Copy Share Image
All intervening steps, scribbles, sketches, drawings, failed work models, studies thoughts, conversations, are of interest. Those that show the thought process of… — Sol LeWitt Copy Share Image
When an artist uses a conceptual form of art, it means that all of the planning and decisions are made beforehand and… — Sol LeWitt Copy Share Image
A blind man can make art if what is in his mind can be passed to another mind in some tangible form. — Sol LeWitt Copy Share Image
I believe that the artist's involvement in the capitalist structure is disadvantageous to the artist and forces him to produce objects in… — Sol LeWitt Copy Share Image
Once it is out of his hand the artist has no control over the way a viewer will perceive the work. Different… — Sol LeWitt Copy Share Image
The artist is seen like a producer of commodities, like a factory that turns out refrigerators. — Sol LeWitt Copy Share Image
Also, since art is a vehicle for the transmission of ideas through form, the reproduction of the form only reinforces the concept.… — Sol LeWitt Copy Share Image
The system is the work of art; the visual work of art is the proof of the System. The visual aspect can't… — Sol LeWitt Copy Share Image
Artists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach. — Sol LeWitt Copy Share Image
An architect doesn't go off with a shovel and dig his foundation and lay every brick. He's still an artist. — Sol LeWitt Copy Share Image
Buying books was a way anyone could acquire a work of art for very little. — Sol LeWitt Copy Share Image
New materials are one of the great afflictions of contemporary art. Some artists confuse new materials with new ideas. — Sol LeWitt Copy Share Image
The artist is seen like a producer of commodities, like a factory that turns our refrigerators. — Sol LeWitt Copy Share Image
Most ideas that are successful are ludicrously simple. Successful ideas generally have the appearance of simplicity because they seem inevitable. In terms of idea… — Sol LeWitt Copy Share Image
Artists teach critics what to think. Critics repeat what the artists teach them. — Sol LeWitt Copy Share Image
In my case, I used the elements of these simple forms - square, cube, line and color - to produce logical systems. Most of… — Sol LeWitt Copy Share Image
Conceptual art became the liberating idea that gave the art of the next 40 years its real impetus. — Sol LeWitt Copy Share Image
The narrative of serial art works more like music than like literature. — Sol LeWitt Copy Share Image
Just as the development of earth art and installation art stemmed from the idea of taking art out of the galleries, the basis of… — Sol LeWitt Copy Share Image
I didn't want to save art - I respected the older artists too much to think art needed saving. But I knew it was… — Sol LeWitt Copy Share Image
One should be intelligent enough to know when not to be too intellectual — Sol LeWitt Copy Share Image
Your work isn't a high stakes, nail-biting professional challenge. It's a form of play. Lighten up and have fun with it. — Sol LeWitt Copy Share Image
