The thinking of John Cage derived from Duchamp and Dada. I was not interested in that. Sol LeWitt More Quotes by Sol LeWitt More Quotes From Sol LeWitt Once it is out of his hand the artist has no control over the way a viewer will perceive the work. Different people will understand the same thing in a different way. Sol LeWitt artist hands people The idea becomes a machine that makes the art. Sol LeWitt machines ideas art What the work of art looks like isn't too important. It has to look like something if it has a physical form. No matter what form it may finally have it must begin with an idea. It is the process of conception and realization with which the artist is concerned. Sol LeWitt important ideas art Every generation renews itself in its own way; there's always a reaction against whatever is standard. Sol LeWitt reactions generations way 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 form ideas art Ideas alone can be works of art; they are in a chain of development that may eventually find some form. All ideas need not be made physical. Sol LeWitt ideas art needs [The artist's aim is] not to instruct the viewer, but to give him information... . The artist would follow his predetermined premise to its conclusion, avoiding subjectivity. Chance, taste, or unconsciously remembered forms would play no part in the outcome. The serial artist does not attempt to produce a beautiful or mysterious object but functions merely as a clerk cataloguing the results of his premise. Sol LeWitt artist play beautiful In conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work Sol LeWitt important ideas art All of the significant art of today stems from Conceptual art. This includes the art of installation, political, feminist and socially directed art. Sol LeWitt feminist political art During the '70s I was interested in words and meaning as a way of making art. Sol LeWitt way art The other great development has been in photography, but that too was influenced by Conceptual art. Sol LeWitt development photography art Buying books was a way anyone could acquire a work of art for very little. Sol LeWitt littles book art When words such as painting and sculpture are used, they connote a whole tradition and imply a consequent acceptance of this tradition, thus placing limitations on the artist who would be reluctant to make art that goes beyond the limitations. Sol LeWitt acceptance would-be art 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 doing-you ends thinking Minimalism wasn't a real idea - it ended before it started. Sol LeWitt minimalism real ideas One should be intelligent enough to know when not to be too intellectual Sol LeWitt intelligent intellectual enough 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. Sol LeWitt wall ideas art Minimal art went nowhere. Sol LeWitt architecture art What the work of art looks like isn't too important. Sol LeWitt important looks art Conceptual art became the liberating idea that gave the art of the next 40 years its real impetus. Sol LeWitt real years art
