Premises Quotes by Sol LeWitt

New materials are one of the great afflictions of contemporary art. Some artists confuse new materials with new ideas.

— Sol LeWitt

The artist is seen like a producer of commodities, like a factory that turns our refrigerators.

— 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…

— Sol LeWitt

Artists teach critics what to think. Critics repeat what the artists teach them.

— Sol LeWitt

In my case, I used the elements of these simple forms - square, cube, line and color - to produce logical systems. Most of…

— Sol LeWitt

Conceptual art became the liberating idea that gave the art of the next 40 years its real impetus.

— Sol LeWitt

The narrative of serial art works more like music than like literature.

— 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…

— 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…

— Sol LeWitt

One should be intelligent enough to know when not to be too intellectual

— Sol LeWitt

I wasn't really that interested in objects. I was interested in ideas.

— 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.

— Sol LeWitt