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Famous Sol LeWitt Quotes
“Formal art is essentially rational.”
Source: Sol Lewitt: critical texts
“What the work of art looks like isn't too important.”
Source: Sol Lewitt: critical texts
“The narrative of serial art works more like music than like literature.”
“Conceptual art became the liberating idea that gave the art of the next 40 years its real impetus.”
Source: Sol Lewitt: critical texts
Source: Sol Lewitt: critical texts
“Buying books was a way anyone could acquire a work of art for very little.”
“During the '70s I was interested in words and meaning as a way of making art.”
Source: Sol Lewitt: critical texts
Source: Sol LeWitt wall drawing 1176: seven basic colors and all their combinations in a square within a square : for Josef Albers
Source: Sol Lewitt: critical texts
Source: Sol LeWitt wall drawing 1176: seven basic colors and all their combinations in a square within a square : for Josef Albers
“The idea becomes a machine that makes the art.”
Source: From the Collection of Sol LeWitt: A Traveling Exhibition Organized and Circulated by Independent Curators Incorporated, New York
“I was not interested in irony; I wanted to emphasize the primacy of the idea in making art”
“In conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work”
“Obviously a drawing of a person is not a real person, but a drawing of a line is a real line.”
Source: Sol Lewitt: critical texts