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Famous Sol LeWitt Quotes
“Banal ideas cannot be rescued by beautiful execution.”
“Formal art is essentially rational.”
“What the work of art looks like isn't too important.”
“The thinking of John Cage derived from Duchamp and Dada. I was not interested in that.”
“Minimalism wasn't a real idea - it ended before it started.”
“The narrative of serial art works more like music than like literature.”
“Artists of many diverse types began using simple forms to their own ends.”
“Conceptual art became the liberating idea that gave the art of the next 40 years its real impetus.”
“I wasn't really that interested in objects. I was interested in ideas.”
“Artists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach.”
“Buying books was a way anyone could acquire a work of art for very little.”
“Artists teach critics what to think. Critics repeat what the artists teach them.”
“During the '70s I was interested in words and meaning as a way of making art.”
“The idea becomes a machine that makes the art.”
“I was not interested in irony; I wanted to emphasize the primacy of the idea in making art”
“One should be intelligent enough to know when not to be too intellectual”
“In conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work”
“Most ideas that are successful are ludicrously simple”
“The artist is seen like a producer of commodities, like a factory that turns out refrigerators.”