Sol LeWitt Quotes

Sol LeWitt

American Artist

Born: Sep 9, 1928

Died: Apr 8, 2007

Art Conceptual Interested Like Own Work

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Also, since art is a vehicle for the transmission of ideas through form, the reproduction of the form only reinforces the concept. It is the idea that is being reproduced. Anyone who understands the work of art owns it. We all own the Mona Lisa. Sol LeWitt

In my case, I used the elements of these simple forms - square, cube, line and color - to produce logical systems. Most of these systems were finite; that is, they were complete using all possible variations. This kept them simple. Sol LeWitt

Unless you're involved with thinking about what you're doing, you end up doing the same thing over and over, and that becomes tedious and, in the end, defeating. Sol LeWitt

You Same Thing Thinking Unless About Over Involved Becomes Doing End Up Same In The End Thing Defeating Tedious

You shouldn't be a prisoner of your own ideas. Sol LeWitt

You Prisoner Own Ideas Your

I was not interested in irony; I wanted to emphasize the primacy of the idea in making art. Sol LeWitt

Art Primacy Idea Emphasize Making Irony Wanted Not Interested Interested

The artist is seen like a producer of commodities, like a factory that turns our refrigerators. Sol LeWitt

Seen Our Factory Like Artist Commodities Producer Turns

I became interested in making books, starting about 1965, when I did the Serial Project #1, deciding that I needed a small book to show how the work could be understood and how the system worked. Sol LeWitt

Buying books was a way anyone could acquire a work of art for very little. Sol LeWitt

Work Art Books Way Could Very Anyone Little Acquire Buying

I didn't want to save art - I respected the older artists too much to think art needed saving. But I knew it was finished, even though, at that time, I didn't know what I would do. Sol LeWitt

Art Time Too Much Finished Older Think Too Saving Respected Though Would Knew Know Artists Want Much Even Needed Save

Every generation renews itself in its own way; there's always a reaction against whatever is standard. Sol LeWitt

Generation Whatever Own Every Way Reaction Always Itself Against Standard

During the '70s I was interested in words and meaning as a way of making art. Sol LeWitt

Art Words Way Making Interested Meaning

Artists teach critics what to think. Critics repeat what the artists teach them. Sol LeWitt

Think Critics Repeat Artists Them Teach

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