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Artist Quotes by Sol LeWitt
- An architect doesn't go off with a shovel and dig his foundation and lay every brick. He's still an artist.
- Artists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach.
- When words such as painting and sculpture are used, they connote a whole tradition and imply a consequent acceptance of this tradition, thus placing limitations…
- When an artist uses a conceptual form of art, it means that all of the planning and decisions are made beforehand and the execution is…
- Once it is out of his hand the artist has no control over the way a viewer will perceive the work. Different people will understand…
- Artists teach critics what to think. Critics repeat what the artists teach them.
- I believe that the artist's involvement in the capitalist structure is disadvantageous to the artist and forces him to produce objects in order to live.
- I didn't want to save art - I respected the older artists too much to think art needed saving. But I knew it was finished,…
- Most ideas that are successful are ludicrously simple. Successful ideas generally have the appearance of simplicity because they seem inevitable. In terms of idea the…
- New materials are one of the great afflictions of contemporary art. Some artists confuse new materials with new ideas.
- What the work of art looks like isn't too important. It has to look like something if it has a physical form. No matter what…
- 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, or…
- The artist’s aim is not to instruct the viewer, but to give information, whether the viewer understands the information is incidental to the artist.
- 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…
- The artist is seen like a producer of commodities, like a factory that turns out refrigerators.
- When artists make art, they shouldn't question whether it is permissible to do one thing or another.
- Artists of many diverse types began using simple forms to their own ends.
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- I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor against his… — Chinua Achebe
- Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist. — Norman Ralph Augustine
- Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did. — Sebastian Bach
- I do struggle with how much and in which way, as an artist or celebrity, that you voice your political views. — Kevin Bacon
- The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. — Francis Bacon
- I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money. — Lord Acton
- I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody's clock. I will work… — Erykah Badu
- Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint it or… — Erykah Badu