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25 quotes by Sol LeWitt

Solomon "Sol" LeWitt (September 9, 1928 – April 8, 2007) was an American artist linked to various movements, including Conceptual art and Minimalism. LeWitt came to fame in the late 1960s with his wall drawings and "structures" (a term he preferred instead of "sculptures") but was prolific in a wide range of media including drawing, printmaking, photography, and painting. He has been the subject of hundreds of solo exhibitions in museums and...
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You shouldn't be a prisoner of your own ideas.

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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.

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All of the significant art of today stems from Conceptual art. This includes the art of installation, political, feminist and socially directed art.

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Minimal art went nowhere.

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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... →

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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;... →

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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... →

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Minimalism wasn't a real idea - it ended before it started.

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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... →

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Buying books was a way anyone could acquire a work of art for very little.

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Artists teach critics what to think. Critics repeat what the artists teach them.

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Every generation renews itself in its own way; there's always a reaction against whatever is standard.

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The narrative of serial art works more like music than like literature.

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