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List of Sol LeWitt Quotes

Explore our hand-picked selection of 54 inspiring quotes by Sol LeWitt.

About Sol LeWitt

  • Born: September 9, 1928
  • Died: April 8, 2007
  • Occupation: Artist
    • 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.
    Art Thinking Saving
    The thinking of john cage derived from duchamp and dada. i was not interested in that.
    Thinking Cages Not Interested
    Formal art is essentially rational.
    Art Formal Rational
    The artist is seen like a producer of commodities, like a factory that turns out refrigerators.
    Artist Commodity Refrigerators
    I was not interested in irony; i wanted to emphasize the primacy of the idea in making art
    Art Ideas Irony
    The narrative of serial art works more like music than like literature.
    Art Literature Narrative
    I believe that the artist's involvement in the capitalist structure is disadvantageous to the artist and forces him to produce objects in order to live.
    Believe Artist Order
    Artists of many diverse types began using simple forms to their own ends.
    Artist Simple Ends
    Conceptual art became the liberating idea that gave the art of the next 40 years its real impetus.
    Art Real Years
    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.
    Thinking Doing You Ends
    Just as the development of earth art and installation art stemmed from the idea of taking art out of the galleries, the basis of my involvement with public art is a continuation of wall drawings.
    Art Wall Ideas
    Minimalism wasn't a real idea - it ended before it started.
    Real Ideas Minimalism
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