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…

— 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.…

— 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…

— Sol LeWitt

I didn't want to save art - I respected the older artists too much to think art needed saving. But I knew…

— 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

All of the significant art of today stems from Conceptual art. This includes the art of installation, political, feminist and socially directed…

— 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…

— Sol LeWitt

I was not interested in irony; I wanted to emphasize the primacy of the idea in making art

— Sol LeWitt

[The artist's aim is] not to instruct the viewer, but to give him information... . The artist would follow his predetermined premise…

— Sol LeWitt

In conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work

— Sol LeWitt

The idea becomes a machine that makes the art.

— Sol LeWitt

Banal ideas cannot be rescued by beautiful execution.

— Sol LeWitt

The other great development has been in photography, but that too was influenced by Conceptual art.

— Sol LeWitt

Obviously a drawing of a person is not a real person, but a drawing of a line is a real line.

— Sol LeWitt

The artist’s aim is not to instruct the viewer, but to give information, whether the viewer understands the information is incidental to…

— Sol LeWitt

“The idea becomes a machine that makes art.”

— Sol LeWitt

Artists of many diverse types began using simple forms to their own ends.

— Sol LeWitt

Formal art is essentially rational.

— Sol LeWitt