Banal ideas cannot be rescued by beautiful execution. Sol LeWitt More Quotes by Sol LeWitt More Quotes From Sol LeWitt Obviously a drawing of a person is not a real person, but a drawing of a line is a real line. Sol LeWitt drawingrealart You belong in the most secret part of you. Don’t worry about cool, make your own uncool. Make your own, your own world. If you fear, make it work for you—draw and paint your fear and anxiety. Sol LeWitt anxietysecretworry A blind man can make art if what is in his mind can be passed to another mind in some tangible form. Sol LeWitt mindmenart When an artist uses a conceptual form of art, it means that all of the planning and decisions are made beforehand and the execution is a perfunctory affair. The idea becomes a machine that makes the art. Sol LeWitt meanideasart New materials are one of the great afflictions of contemporary art. Some artists confuse new materials with new ideas. Sol LeWitt afflictionideasart Don’t worry about cool, make your own uncool. Sol LeWitt uncoolworry The most interesting characteristic of the cube is that it is relatively uninteresting. Compared to any other three-dimensional form, the cube lacks any aggressive force, implies no motion, and is least emotive. Therefore, it is the best form to use as a basic unit for any more elaborate function, the grammatical device from which the work may proceed. Sol LeWitt threeuseinteresting All intervening steps, scribbles, sketches, drawings, failed work models, studies thoughts, conversations, are of interest. Those that show the thought process of the artist are sometimes more interesting than the final product Sol LeWitt drawingartistinteresting When artists make art, they shouldn't question whether it is permissible to do one thing or another. Sol LeWitt one-thingartistart Artists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach. Sol LeWitt leaplogicartist Most ideas that are successful are ludicrously simple Sol LeWitt successfulsimpleideas The system is the work of art; the visual work of art is the proof of the System. The visual aspect can't be understood without understanding the system. It isn't what it looks like but what it is that is of basic importance. Sol LeWitt understandinglooksart You shouldn't be a prisoner of your own ideas. Sol LeWitt prisonerideas Most ideas that are successful are ludicrously simple. Successful ideas generally have the appearance of simplicity because they seem inevitable. In terms of idea the artist is free to even surprise himself. Ideas are discovered by intuition. Sol LeWitt artistsuccessfulsimple Your work isn't a high stakes, nail-biting professional challenge. It's a form of play. Lighten up and have fun with it. Sol LeWitt challengesplayfun I wasn't really that interested in objects. I was interested in ideas. Sol LeWitt objectsideas Artists teach critics what to think. Critics repeat what the artists teach them. Sol LeWitt teachartistthinking The idea part is simple but the visual perception is complex. Sol LeWitt perceptionsimpleideas A work of art may be understood as a conductor from the artist's mind to the viewer's. But it may never reach the viewer, or it may never leave the artist's mind. Sol LeWitt mindmayart One usually understands the art of the past by applying the conventions of the present thus misunderstanding the art of the past. Sol LeWitt conventionspastart
