Quotes by Sol LeWitt

Sol LeWitt

[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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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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Mind

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.

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Mind

All intervening steps, scribbles, sketches, drawings, failed work models, studies thoughts, conversations, are of interest. Those that show the thought process of the artist are sometimes more interesting than the final product

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Interesting

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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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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Ideas

An architect doesn’t go off with a shovel and dig his foundation and lay every brick. He’s still an artist.

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Artists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach.

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

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Ends

Simple

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

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Quotes by Sol LeWitt

Sol LeWitt

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

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.

All intervening steps, scribbles, sketches, drawings, failed work models, studies thoughts, conversations, are of interest. Those that show the thought process of the artist are sometimes more interesting than the final product

All of the significant art of today stems from Conceptual art. This includes the art of installation, political, feminist and socially directed art.

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.

An architect doesn’t go off with a shovel and dig his foundation and lay every brick. He’s still an artist.

Artists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach.

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

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

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