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Artists of many diverse types began using simple forms to their own ends.
Sol LeWitt
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Sol LeWitt
Age: 78 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 9
Died: 2007
Died: April 8
Architect
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Conceptual Artist
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Hartford
Connecticut
Sol Le Witt
Sol Lewitt
Solomon Sol LeWitt
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Most ideas that are successful are ludicrously simple. Successful ideas generally have the appearance of simplicity because they seem inevitable. In terms of idea the artist is free to even surprise himself. Ideas are discovered by intuition.
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Your work isn't a high stakes, nail-biting professional challenge. It's a form of play. Lighten up and have fun with it.
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