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Artists teach critics what to think. Critics repeat what the artists teach them.
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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During the '70s I was interested in words and meaning as a way of making art.
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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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Conceptual art became the liberating idea that gave the art of the next 40 years its real impetus.
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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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What the work of art looks like isn't too important.
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Artists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach.
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Minimal art went nowhere.
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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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A blind man can make art if what is in his mind can be passed to another mind in some tangible form.
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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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Conceptual art is only good if the idea is good.
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One should be intelligent enough to know when not to be too intellectual
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Artists of many diverse types began using simple forms to their own ends.
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You shouldn't be a prisoner of your own ideas.
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Every generation renews itself in its own way there's always a reaction against whatever is standard.
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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.
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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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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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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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Once it is out of his hand the artist has no control over the way a viewer will perceive the work. Different people will understand the same thing in a different way.
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