All Sol LeWitt Quotes
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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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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I became interested in making books, starting about 1965, when I did the Serial Project #1, deciding that I needed a small book to show how the work could be understood and how the system worked.
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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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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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When artists make art, they shouldn't question whether it is permissible to do one thing or another.
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Buying books was a way anyone could acquire a work of art for very little.
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The other great development has been in photography, but that too was influenced by Conceptual art.
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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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During the '70s I was interested in words and meaning as a way of making art.
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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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Artists teach critics what to think. Critics repeat what the artists teach them.
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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 public art is a continuation of wall drawings.
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The artist is seen like a producer of commodities, like a factory that turns our refrigerators.
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