All Sol LeWitt Quotes
Conceptual art became the liberating idea that gave the art of the next 40 years its real impetus.
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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 the end, defeating.
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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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The narrative of serial art works more like music than like literature.
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I was not interested in irony; I wanted to emphasize the primacy of the idea in making art.
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Artists of many diverse types began using simple forms to their own ends.
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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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Minimalism wasn't a real idea - it ended before it started.
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The thinking of John Cage derived from Duchamp and Dada. I was not interested in that.
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