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> [All intervening steps, scribbles, sketches, drawings, failed work models, studies thoughts, conversations, are of interest. Those that show the thought process of the artist are sometimes more interesting than the final product](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sol-lewitt/all-intervening-steps-scribbles-sketches-drawings-failed-work-models/)

[Sol LeWitt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sol-lewitt/)

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## More by Sol LeWitt

> [New materials are one of the great afflictions of contemporary art. Some artists confuse new materials with new ideas.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sol-lewitt/new-materials-are-one-of-the-great-afflictions-of-contemporary-art/)

[Sol LeWitt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sol-lewitt/)

> [The artist is seen like a producer of commodities, like a factory that turns our refrigerators.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sol-lewitt/the-artist-is-seen-like-a-producer-of-commodities-like-a-factory-that/)

[Sol LeWitt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sol-lewitt/)

> [Most ideas that are successful are ludicrously simple. Successful ideas generally have the appearance of simplicity because they seem inevitable. In terms of idea…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sol-lewitt/most-ideas-that-are-successful-are-ludicrously-simple-successful/)

[Sol LeWitt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sol-lewitt/)

> [Artists teach critics what to think. Critics repeat what the artists teach them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sol-lewitt/artists-teach-critics-what-to-think-critics-repeat-what-the-artists/)

[Sol LeWitt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sol-lewitt/)

> [In my case, I used the elements of these simple forms - square, cube, line and color - to produce logical systems. Most of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sol-lewitt/in-my-case-i-used-the-elements-of-these-simple-forms-square-cube-line/)

[Sol LeWitt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sol-lewitt/)

> [Conceptual art became the liberating idea that gave the art of the next 40 years its real impetus.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sol-lewitt/conceptual-art-became-the-liberating-idea-that-gave-the-art-of-the/)

[Sol LeWitt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sol-lewitt/)

> [The narrative of serial art works more like music than like literature.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sol-lewitt/the-narrative-of-serial-art-works-more-like-music-than-like-literature/)

[Sol LeWitt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sol-lewitt/)

> [Just as the development of earth art and installation art stemmed from the idea of taking art out of the galleries, the basis of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sol-lewitt/just-as-the-development-of-earth-art-and-installation-art-stemmed/)

[Sol LeWitt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sol-lewitt/i-didn-t-want-to-save-art-i-respected-the-older-artists-too-much-to/)

[Sol LeWitt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sol-lewitt/)

> [One should be intelligent enough to know when not to be too intellectual](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sol-lewitt/one-should-be-intelligent-enough-to-know-when-not-to-be-too/)

[Sol LeWitt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sol-lewitt/)

> [I wasn't really that interested in objects. I was interested in ideas.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sol-lewitt/i-wasn-t-really-that-interested-in-objects-i-was-interested-in-ideas/)

[Sol LeWitt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sol-lewitt/)

> [Your work isn't a high stakes, nail-biting professional challenge. It's a form of play. Lighten up and have fun with it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sol-lewitt/your-work-isn-t-a-high-stakes-nail-biting-professional-challenge-it-s/)

[Sol LeWitt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sol-lewitt/all-of-the-significant-art-of-today-stems-from-conceptual-art-this/)

[Sol LeWitt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sol-lewitt/)

> [A work of art may be understood as a conductor from the artist's mind to the viewer's. But it may never reach the viewer,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sol-lewitt/a-work-of-art-may-be-understood-as-a-conductor-from-the-artist-s-mind/)

[Sol LeWitt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sol-lewitt/)

> [I was not interested in irony; I wanted to emphasize the primacy of the idea in making art](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sol-lewitt/i-was-not-interested-in-irony-i-wanted-to-emphasize-the-primacy-of/)

[Sol LeWitt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sol-lewitt/)

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