Sol LeWitt Quotes:
Ocupation: Artist
Life: September 9, 1928 - April 8, 2007
Birthday: September 9
Death: April 8
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A blind man can make art if what is in his mind can be passed to another mind in some tangible form.
source: - Sol LeWitt (2006). “Sol LeWitt wall drawing 1176: seven basic colors and all their combinations in a square within a square : for Josef Albers”, Richter Verlag
Topics: Art, Ideas, Affliction, Contemporary Art
You shouldn't be a prisoner of your own ideas.
source: - Interview with Saul Ostrow, bombmagazine.org. October 1, 2003. 
When artists make art, they shouldn't question whether it is permissible to do one thing or another.
Artists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach.
source: - Sol LeWitt (2006). “Sol LeWitt wall drawing 1176: seven basic colors and all their combinations in a square within a square : for Josef Albers”, Richter Verlag
Buying books was a way anyone could acquire a work of art for very little.
Topics: Art, Book, Littles, Buying Books
source: - Sol LeWitt, Andrea Miller-Keller, John B. Ravenal (1984). “From the Collection of Sol LeWitt: A Traveling Exhibition Organized and Circulated by Independent Curators Incorporated, New York”, Independent Curators
Topics: Art, Mean, Ideas, Conceptual Art
The other great development has been in photography, but that too was influenced by Conceptual art.
Topics: Photography, Art, Development, Conceptual Art
In conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work
Topics: Art, Ideas, Important, Conceptual Art
Banal ideas cannot be rescued by beautiful execution.
source: - Sol LeWitt (1995). “Sol Lewitt: critical texts”, Power House Books
One should be intelligent enough to know when not to be too intellectual
source: - Sol LeWitt (1995). “Sol Lewitt: critical texts”, Power House Books
Topics: Intelligent, Intellectual, Enough
Topics: Art, Feminist, Political, Installation, Conceptual Art
source: - Sol LeWitt (1995). “Sol Lewitt: critical texts”, Power House Books
Topics: Artist, Drawing, Interesting, Scribbles, Intervening
Topics: Fun, Play, Challenges
The idea part is simple but the visual perception is complex.
Topics: Simple, Ideas, Perception, Visual Perception
Obviously a drawing of a person is not a real person, but a drawing of a line is a real line.
source: - Sol LeWitt (1995). “Sol Lewitt: critical texts”, Power House Books
Topics: Art, Understanding, Looks
Topics: Art, Wall, Ideas, Installation, Continuation
The narrative of serial art works more like music than like literature.
Topics: Art, Literature, Narrative
Topics: Art, Acceptance, Would Be
source: - Sol LeWitt (1995). “Sol Lewitt: critical texts”, Power House Books
Topics: Successful, Simple, Artist
Topics: Interesting, Use, May
Topics: Art, Ideas, Development
source: - Sol LeWitt (1995). “Sol Lewitt: critical texts”, Power House Books
Topics: Art, Architecture
Topics: Art, Past, Conventions
source: - Sol LeWitt (1995). “Sol Lewitt: critical texts”, Power House Books
source: - Sol LeWitt (1995). “Sol Lewitt: critical texts”, Power House Books
Topics: Artist, Bricks, Foundation
I wasn't really that interested in objects. I was interested in ideas.
source: - Sol LeWitt (1995). “Sol Lewitt: critical texts”, Power House Books
Topics: Ideas
Conceptual art became the liberating idea that gave the art of the next 40 years its real impetus.
Topics: Art, Real, Years, Conceptual Art, Impetus
Topics: Way, Generations, Standards
Don’t worry about cool, make your own uncool.
source: - Sol LeWitt (1995). “Sol Lewitt: critical texts”, Power House Books
Conceptual art is only good if the idea is good.
source: - Source: www.believermag.com
Topics: Art, Ideas, Ifs, Conceptual Art
source: - "Serial Project #1, 1966" by Sol LeWitt in Aspen Magazine, No. 5+6 (The Minimalism issue edited by Brian O'Doherty), Fall/Winter 1967.
Topics: Artist, Giving, Information
Formal art is essentially rational.
source: - Sol LeWitt (1995). “Sol Lewitt: critical texts”, Power House Books
Topics: Beautiful, Artist, Play, Predetermined
The thinking of John Cage derived from Duchamp and Dada. I was not interested in that.
source: - Interview with Saul Ostrow, bombmagazine.org. October 1, 2003.
Topics: Thinking, Cages, Not Interested
