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An architect doesn't go off with a shovel and dig his foundation and lay every brick. He's still an artist.
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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Sculptor
Hartford
Connecticut
Sol Le Witt
Sol Lewitt
Solomon Sol LeWitt
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Artists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach.
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Artists teach critics what to think. Critics repeat what the artists teach them.
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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.
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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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I didn't want to save art - I respected the older artists too much to think art needed saving. But I knew it was finished, even though, at that time, I didn't know what I would do.
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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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When an artist uses a conceptual form of art, it means that all of the planning and decisions are made beforehand and the execution is a perfunctory affair. The idea becomes a machine that makes the art.
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