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Artists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach.
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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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.
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All intervening steps, scribbles, sketches, drawings, failed work models, studies thoughts, conversations, are of interest. Those that show the thought process of the artist are sometimes more interesting than the final product
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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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Obviously a drawing of a person is not a real person, but a drawing of a line is a real line.
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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 wasn't really that interested in objects. I was interested in ideas.
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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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What the work of art looks like isn't too important.
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Irrational judgements lead to new experience.
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New materials are one of the great afflictions of contemporary art. Some artists confuse new materials with new ideas.
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