Art Quote by Sol LeWitt Download Open image “During the '70s I was interested in words and meaning as a way of making art.” — Sol LeWitt ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Language Making Art Way
In the mid- to late '60s to the mid-'70s, when I was a student, there was a major change in the thinking about what… — Bill Viola Copy Share Image
The '70s were full of creativity. Everybody was so unique. It was a very creative period, and I think to be a designer you… — Carolina Herrera Copy Share Image
Art was something that I was really interested in, probably more so than writing or anything else. — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
I was asked in 1969 by Lucy Lippard to define art. I think at the time I said that art was a matter of… — Tony Shafrazi Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I looked at art as a way of blending everything. One of my favorite composers is Wagner - who… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
Writers want to summarize: What does this mean? What did we learn from this? That's a very 19th-century way of thinking about art, because… — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
Much of the art of the 1960s, from body art to video and direct performance, was concerned with similar issues. And then there was… — Valie Export Copy Share Image
The early expression of my youth was filled with all the aspects of art. — Felix de Weldon Copy Share Image
One of the things I understood from early on was that art was a symbol of systemic inequity. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living. — Robert Henri 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
