Sol LeWitt

Irrational judgements lead to new experience.

— Sol LeWitt

Minimal art went nowhere.

— Sol LeWitt

Conceptual art is only good if the idea is good.

— Sol LeWitt

You shouldn't be a prisoner of your own ideas.

— Sol LeWitt

Formal art is essentially rational.

— Sol LeWitt

Don’t worry about cool, make your own uncool.

— Sol LeWitt

The idea becomes a machine that makes the art.

— Sol LeWitt

“The idea becomes a machine that makes art.”

— 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

Banal ideas cannot be rescued by beautiful execution.

— Sol LeWitt

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

— Sol LeWitt

The thinking of John Cage derived from Duchamp and Dada. I was not interested in that.

— Sol LeWitt

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

— Sol LeWitt

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

— Sol LeWitt

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

— 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…

— Sol LeWitt

Ideas alone can be works of art; they are in a chain of development that may eventually find some form. All ideas…

— Sol LeWitt

An architect doesn't go off with a shovel and dig his foundation and lay every brick. He's still an artist.

— 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

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

— Sol LeWitt

A blind man can make art if what is in his mind can be passed to another mind in some tangible form.

— Sol LeWitt

You belong in the most secret part of you. Don’t worry about cool, make your own uncool. Make your own, your own…

— Sol LeWitt

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

— Sol LeWitt

All intervening steps, scribbles, sketches, drawings, failed work models, studies thoughts, conversations, are of interest. Those that show the thought process of…

— Sol LeWitt

What the work of art looks like isn't too important. It has to look like something if it has a physical form.…

— Sol LeWitt

Also, since art is a vehicle for the transmission of ideas through form, the reproduction of the form only reinforces the concept.…

— Sol LeWitt

The most interesting characteristic of the cube is that it is relatively uninteresting. Compared to any other three-dimensional form, the cube lacks…

— Sol LeWitt

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

When an artist uses a conceptual form of art, it means that all of the planning and decisions are made beforehand and…

— Sol LeWitt

When words such as painting and sculpture are used, they connote a whole tradition and imply a consequent acceptance of this tradition,…

— 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

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

— Sol LeWitt

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

— Sol LeWitt

Artists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach.

— Sol LeWitt

During the '70s I was interested in words and meaning as a way of making art.

— Sol LeWitt

Minimalism wasn't a real idea - it ended before it started.

— Sol LeWitt

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

— Sol LeWitt

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

— 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