You shouldn't be a prisoner of your own ideas. Sol LeWitt More Quotes by Sol LeWitt More Quotes From Sol LeWitt The idea becomes a machine that makes the art. Sol LeWitt machinesideasart 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 importantideasart Every generation renews itself in its own way; there's always a reaction against whatever is standard. Sol LeWitt reactionsgenerationsway 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 formideasart 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 ideasartneeds [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 artistplaybeautiful In conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work Sol LeWitt importantideasart 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 feministpoliticalart During the '70s I was interested in words and meaning as a way of making art. Sol LeWitt wayart The other great development has been in photography, but that too was influenced by Conceptual art. Sol LeWitt developmentphotographyart Buying books was a way anyone could acquire a work of art for very little. Sol LeWitt littlesbookart 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 acceptancewould-beart 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-youendsthinking Minimalism wasn't a real idea - it ended before it started. Sol LeWitt minimalismrealideas One should be intelligent enough to know when not to be too intellectual Sol LeWitt intelligentintellectualenough 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 wallideasart Minimal art went nowhere. Sol LeWitt architectureart What the work of art looks like isn't too important. Sol LeWitt importantlooksart Conceptual art became the liberating idea that gave the art of the next 40 years its real impetus. Sol LeWitt realyearsart 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 colorsquaressimple
