Sol LeWitt Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• A blind man can make art if what is in his mind can be passed to another mind in some tangible form.

  Sol LeWitt

  Art, Men, Mind

• New materials are one of the great afflictions of contemporary art. Some artists confuse new materials with new ideas.

  Sol LeWitt

  Art, Ideas, Affliction

  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

• When artists make art, they shouldn't question whether it is permissible to do one thing or another.

  Sol LeWitt

  Art, Artist, One Thing

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

  Sol LeWitt

  Art, Book, Littles

• 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.

  Sol LeWitt

  Art, Mean, Ideas

  Sol LeWitt (1995). “Sol Lewitt: critical texts”, Power House Books

• 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

  Art, Wall, Ideas

  "Sol LeWitt by Saul Ostrow". Interview with Saul Ostrow, bombmagazine.org. October 1, 2003.

• Obviously a drawing of a person is not a real person, but a drawing of a line is a real line.

  Sol LeWitt

  Art, Real, Drawing

  Sol LeWitt (1995). “Sol Lewitt: critical texts”, Power House Books

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

  Sol LeWitt

  Photography, Art, Development

  "Sol LeWitt by Saul Ostrow". Interview with Saul Ostrow, bombmagazine.org. October 1, 2003.

• The idea becomes a machine that makes the art.

  Sol LeWitt

  Art, Ideas, Machines

  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

• In conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work

  Sol LeWitt

  Art, Ideas, Important

  1967 'Paragraphs on Conceptual Art', in Artforum, summer.

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

  Sol LeWitt

  Art, Literature, Narrative

• 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

  Art, Acceptance, Would Be

  Sol LeWitt (1995). “Sol Lewitt: critical texts”, Power House Books

• 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

  Art, Ideas, Important

  Sol LeWitt (1995). “Sol Lewitt: critical texts”, Power House Books

• A work of art may be understood as a conductor from the artist's mind to the viewer's. But it may never reach the viewer, or it may never leave the artist's mind.

  Sol LeWitt

  Art, Mind, May

  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

• One usually understands the art of the past by applying the conventions of the present thus misunderstanding the art of the past.

  Sol LeWitt

  Art, Past, Conventions

  1969 'Sentences on Conceptual Art', in Art-Language, vol.1, no.1, May.

• 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

  Art, Ideas, Form

  "Sol LeWitt by Saul Ostrow". Interview with Saul Ostrow, bombmagazine.org. October 1, 2003.

• Conceptual art is only good if the idea is good.

  Sol LeWitt

  Art, Ideas, Ifs

  Source: www.believermag.com

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

  Sol LeWitt

  Art, Ideas, Irony

• Formal art is essentially rational.

  Sol LeWitt

  Art, Formal, Rational

  Sol LeWitt (1995). “Sol Lewitt: critical texts”, Power House Books

• 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

  Art, Feminist, Political

  "50 Art Ideas You Really Need to Know" by Susie Hodge, Quercus, (p. 270), September 29, 2011.

• During the '70s I was interested in words and meaning as a way of making art.

  Sol LeWitt

  Art, Way

• What the work of art looks like isn't too important.

  Sol LeWitt

  Art, Important, Looks

  Sol LeWitt (1995). “Sol Lewitt: critical texts”, Power House Books

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

  Sol LeWitt

  Art, Real, Years

  "Sol LeWitt by Saul Ostrow". Interview with Saul Ostrow, bombmagazine.org. October 1, 2003.

• 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.

  Sol LeWitt

  Art, Thinking, Saving

• Minimal art went nowhere.

  Sol LeWitt

  Art, Architecture

  "Sol LeWitt by Saul Ostrow". Interview with Saul Ostrow, bombmagazine.org. October 1, 2003.

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