Sol LeWitt Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“Conceptual art became the liberating idea that gave the art of the next 40 years its real impetus.”

“I was not interested in irony; I wanted to emphasize the primacy of the idea in making art.”

“The other great development has been in photography, but that too was influenced by Conceptual art.”

“The thinking of John Cage derived from Duchamp and Dada. I was not interested in that.”

“When artists make art, they shouldn't question whether it is permissible to do one thing or another.”