Art Quote by Sol LeWitt Download Open image “I was not interested in irony; I wanted to emphasize the primacy of the idea in making art” — Sol LeWitt ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Artist Emphasize Primacy Interested Irony Irony Irony Wanted Making Art Not interested Primacy Idea Wanted
I feel that there's hardly any irony in my work; if there's anything, there'll be sincerity, which people sometimes find hard to deal with. — Patricia Piccinini Copy Share Image
I think I would explode in flames of irony if I were to option an idea that I was satirizing in a novel. — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
If you do not start with the idea, you are creating fine art - its personal, but it tends not to communicate. — Seymour Chwast Copy Share Image
There has to be irony, both in design and in the objects. I see around me a professional disease of taking everything too seriously.… — Achille Castiglioni Copy Share Image
I hate irony, particularly when it is used because there isn't any message or to hide that someone hasn't any story to tell. Just like when someone only spews out a stack of cool words which don't mean anything and then has the gall to call it art. I always want to create a bridge between us and the listener,… — Jack White Copy Share
I have wit in my work and a sense of humor, but I do not use irony in any way — John Zorn Copy Share Image
The trouble with talking about irony is, it's such a slippery thing that the second you start talking about it, you're a better example… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
The enemy of any artistic statement is to create something that no one cares about, in the sense they have no opinion either way. — Carrie Brownstein 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
