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Sol LeWitt

I didn't want to save art - I...

I didn't want to save art - I respected the older artists too much to think art needed saving. But I knew it was finished, even though, at that time, I didn't know what I would do.

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Sol LeWitt

The other great development h...

The other great development has been in photography, but that too was influenced by Conceptual art.

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Sol LeWitt

The thinking of John Cage der...

The thinking of John Cage derived from Duchamp and Dada. I was not interested in that.

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Sol LeWitt

Unless you're involved with t...

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.

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Sol LeWitt

A blind man can make art if w...

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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Sol LeWitt

All of the significant art of...

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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Sol LeWitt

Also, since art is a vehicle ...

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.

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Sol LeWitt

I believe that the artist's i...

I believe that the artist's involvement in the capitalist structure is disadvantageous to the artist and forces him to produce objects in order to live.

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Sol LeWitt

The system is the work of art...

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.

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Sol LeWitt

I was not interested in irony...

I was not interested in irony; I wanted to emphasize the primacy of the idea in making art.

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Sol LeWitt

The most interesting characte...

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.

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Sol LeWitt

Just as the development of ea...

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.

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Sol LeWitt

Conceptual art became the lib...

Conceptual art became the liberating idea that gave the art of the next 40 years its real impetus.

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Sol LeWitt

Artists teach critics what to...

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

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Sol LeWitt

In my case, I used the elemen...

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.

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Sol LeWitt

Every generation renews itsel...

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

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Sol LeWitt

Once it is out of his hand th...

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.

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Sol LeWitt

The artist’s aim is not to in...

The artist’s aim is not to instruct the viewer, but to give information, whether the viewer understands the information is incidental to the artist.

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Sol LeWitt

When an artist uses a concept...

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.

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Sol LeWitt

Ideas alone can be works of a...

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.

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