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

Sol LeWitt

Artist, Thinking, Teach

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

Sol LeWitt

Art, Literature, Narrative

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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.

Sol LeWitt

Art, Ideas, Needs

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

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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.

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

Sol LeWitt

Generations, Way, Reactions

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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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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.

Sol LeWitt

Thinking, Doing You, Ends

Interview with Saul Ostrow, bombmagazine.org. October 1, 2003.

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Conceptual art is only good if the idea is good.

Sol LeWitt

Art, Ideas, Ifs

Source: www.believermag.com

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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.

Sol LeWitt

Art, Ideas, Form

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

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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.

Sol LeWitt

Artist, Giving, Information

"Serial Project #1, 1966" by Sol LeWitt in Aspen Magazine, No. 5+6 (The Minimalism issue edited by Brian O'Doherty), Fall/Winter 1967.

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Formal art is essentially rational.

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Art, Formal, Rational

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

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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.

Sol LeWitt

Art, Wall, Ideas

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

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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.

Sol LeWitt

Simple, Squares, Color

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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

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

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Art, Ideas, Important

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

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[The artist's aim is] not to instruct the viewer, but to give him information... . The artist would follow his predetermined premise to its conclusion, avoiding subjectivity. Chance, taste, or unconsciously remembered forms would play no part in the outcome. The serial artist does not attempt to produce a beautiful or mysterious object but functions merely as a clerk cataloguing the results of his premise.

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Beautiful, Artist, Play

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

Sol LeWitt

Art, Way

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Minimalism wasn't a real idea - it ended before it started.

Sol LeWitt

Real, Ideas, Minimalism

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

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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.

Sol LeWitt

Art, Feminist, Political

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

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

Sol LeWitt

Art, Book, Littles

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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.

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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

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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.

Sol LeWitt

Believe, Artist, Order

Video Data Bank of Art Institute of Chicago, collection "On Art and Artists", 1992.

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Artists of many diverse types began using simple forms to their own ends.

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Artist, Simple, Ends

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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.

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Born: September 9, 1928
Died: April 8, 2007
Occupation: Artist
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