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

Minimal art went nowhere. — Sol LeWitt

One usually understands the art of the past by applying the conventions of the present thus misunderstanding the art of the past. — Sol LeWitt

Formal art is essentially rational. — Sol LeWitt

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

I wasn't really that interested in objects. I was interested in ideas. — Sol LeWitt

Obviously a drawing of a person is not a real person, but a drawing of a line is a real line. — Sol LeWitt

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

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

The idea part is simple but the visual perception is complex. — Sol LeWitt

One should be intelligent enough to know when not to be too intellectual — Sol LeWitt

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

The other great development has been in photography, but that too was influenced by Conceptual art. — Sol LeWitt

You shouldn't be a prisoner of your own ideas. — Sol LeWitt

The thinking of John Cage derived from Duchamp and Dada. I was not interested in that. — Sol LeWitt

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

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

The idea becomes a machine that makes art. — Sol LeWitt

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

Conceptual art became the liberating idea that gave the art of the next 40 years its real impetus. — Sol LeWitt

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

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

Don't worry about cool, make your own uncool. — Sol LeWitt

Banal ideas cannot be rescued by beautiful execution. — Sol LeWitt

I was not interested in irony; I wanted to emphasize the primacy of the idea in making art. — Sol LeWitt

Your work isn't a high stakes, nail-biting professional challenge. It's a form of play. Lighten up and have fun with it. — Sol LeWitt

Conceptual art is only good if the idea is good. — Sol LeWitt

New materials are one of the great afflictions of contemporary art. Some artists confuse new materials with new ideas. — Sol LeWitt

What the work of art looks like isn't too important. — Sol LeWitt

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

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

The artist is seen like a producer of commodities, like a factory that turns our refrigerators. — Sol LeWitt

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

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

Irrational judgements lead to new experience. — Sol LeWitt