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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
Sol LeWitt
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Sol LeWitt
Age: 78 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 9
Died: 2007
Died: April 8
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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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Conceptual art is only good if the idea is good.
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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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In conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work
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Minimal art went nowhere.
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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.
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What the work of art looks like isn't too important.
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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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The system is the work of art the visual work of art is the proof of the System. The visual aspect can't be understood without understanding the system. It isn't what it looks like but what it is that is of basic importance.
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Minimalism wasn't a real idea - it ended before it started.
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You shouldn't be a prisoner of your own ideas.
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Just as the development of earth art and installation art stemmed from the idea of taking art out of the galleries, the basis of my involvement with public art is a continuation of wall drawings.
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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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Most ideas that are successful are ludicrously simple
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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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Artists teach critics what to think. Critics repeat what the artists teach them.
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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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One should be intelligent enough to know when not to be too intellectual
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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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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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