Art Quote by Sol LeWitt Download Open image “Artists of many diverse types began using simple forms to their own ends.” — Sol LeWitt ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Diverse Ends Simple
I have come to see that an artist is not given a form - a style - but his nature merely gives him the… — Jack Shadbolt Copy Share Image
When you are an artist you can turn your hand to anything, in any style. Once you have the tools then all the artforms… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
The history of the creative progress of individual artists shows that, along with their spiritual growth and the increasing complexity of their inner life,… — Mieczyslaw Jastrun Copy Share Image
An art form requires genius. People of genius are always troublemakers, meaning they start from scratch, demolish accepted norms, and rebuild a new world. — Henri Langlois Copy Share Image
One could say that artists are people who think naturally in highly patterned ways. — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
I think the tendency to paint composers or styles of music with too broad a brush - for example, identifying composers as writers of… — Michael Hersch Copy Share Image
You don't know how much artists go through to make it look so easy. It's all in the practice. — Lauryn Hill Copy Share Image
An artist's work is a synthesis of much more than the work of other creators. — Phoebe Gloeckner Copy Share Image
New materials are one of the great afflictions of contemporary art. Some artists confuse new materials with new ideas. — Sol LeWitt Copy Share Image
The artist is seen like a producer of commodities, like a factory that turns our refrigerators. — Sol LeWitt Copy Share Image
Most ideas that are successful are ludicrously simple. Successful ideas generally have the appearance of simplicity because they seem inevitable. In terms of idea… — Sol LeWitt Copy Share Image
Artists teach critics what to think. Critics repeat what the artists teach them. — Sol LeWitt Copy Share Image
In my case, I used the elements of these simple forms - square, cube, line and color - to produce logical systems. Most of… — Sol LeWitt Copy Share Image
Conceptual art became the liberating idea that gave the art of the next 40 years its real impetus. — Sol LeWitt Copy Share Image
The narrative of serial art works more like music than like literature. — Sol LeWitt Copy Share Image
Just as the development of earth art and installation art stemmed from the idea of taking art out of the galleries, the basis of… — Sol LeWitt Copy Share Image
I didn't want to save art - I respected the older artists too much to think art needed saving. But I knew it was… — Sol LeWitt Copy Share Image
One should be intelligent enough to know when not to be too intellectual — Sol LeWitt Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image