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Architect Quote by Sol LeWitt

“An architect doesn't go off with a shovel and dig…” quote by Sol LeWitt — Download Open image

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

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

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

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Most ideas that are successful are ludicrously simple. Successful ideas generally have the appearance of simplicity because they seem inevitable. In terms of idea…

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

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

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

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

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Just as the development of earth art and installation art stemmed from the idea of taking art out of the galleries, the basis of…

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

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

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

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Your work isn't a high stakes, nail-biting professional challenge. It's a form of play. Lighten up and have fun with it.

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