Sol LeWitt Quotes & Sayings

“You shouldn't be a prisoner of your own ideas.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“Minimal art went nowhere.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”