All Sol LeWitt Quotes
- Most ideas that are successful are ludicrously simple Ideas
- The artist is seen like a producer of commodities, like a factory that turns out refrigerators. Artist
- Your work isn't a high stakes, nail-biting professional challenge. It's a form of play. Lighten up and have fun with it. Biting
- The idea part is simple but the visual perception is complex. Complex
- You belong in the most secret part of you. Don’t worry about cool, make your own uncool. Make your own, your own world. If you… Anxiety
- Obviously a drawing of a person is not a real person, but a drawing of a line is a real line. Drawing
- Don’t worry about cool, make your own uncool. Cool
- The system is the work of art; the visual work of art is the proof of the System. The visual aspect can't be understood without… Art
- In my case, I used the elements of these simple forms - square, cube, line and color - to produce logical systems. Most of these… All
- Just as the development of earth art and installation art stemmed from the idea of taking art out of the galleries, the basis of my… Art
- When artists make art, they shouldn't question whether it is permissible to do one thing or another. Art
- Minimalism wasn't a real idea - it ended before it started. Ended
- You shouldn't be a prisoner of your own ideas. Ideas
- A blind man can make art if what is in his mind can be passed to another mind in some tangible form. Another Mind
- The narrative of serial art works more like music than like literature. Art
- Unless you're involved with thinking about what you're doing, you end up doing the same thing over and over, and that becomes tedious and, in… Becomes
- All of the significant art of today stems from Conceptual art. This includes the art of installation, political, feminist and socially directed art. All
- Artists of many diverse types began using simple forms to their own ends. Artist
- Conceptual art became the liberating idea that gave the art of the next 40 years its real impetus. Art
- Minimal art went nowhere. Architecture
- The other great development has been in photography, but that too was influenced by Conceptual art. Art
- The thinking of John Cage derived from Duchamp and Dada. I was not interested in that. Cage
- I became interested in making books, starting about 1965, when I did the Serial Project #1, deciding that I needed a small book to show… Became