Sol LeWitt Quotes

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.

The Thinking Of John Cage Derived From Duchamp And Dada. I Was Not Interested In That.

Formal Art Is Essentially Rational.

The Artist Is Seen Like A Producer Of Commodities, Like A Factory That Turns Out Refrigerators.

I Was Not Interested In Irony; I Wanted To Emphasize The Primacy Of The Idea In Making Art

The Narrative Of Serial Art Works More Like Music Than Like Literature.

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.

Artists Of Many Diverse Types Began Using Simple Forms To Their Own Ends.

Conceptual Art Became The Liberating Idea That Gave The Art Of The Next 40 Years Its Real Impetus.

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.

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.

Minimalism Wasn't A Real Idea - It Ended Before It Started.