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Famous Sol LeWitt Quotes
“Banal ideas cannot be rescued by beautiful execution.”
Source: Sol Lewitt: critical texts
“Minimalism wasn't a real idea - it ended before it started.”
“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.”
Source: Sol Lewitt: critical texts
Source: Sol Lewitt: critical texts
Source: Sol Lewitt: critical texts
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
“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”
“Most ideas that are successful are ludicrously simple”
Source: Sol Lewitt: critical texts
“The idea part is simple but the visual perception is complex.”