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Sol LeWitt Quotes

American - Artist | September 9, 1928 - April 8, 2007

The artist is seen like a producer of commodities, like a factory that turns our refrigerators.

Artist Producer Seen Like Our Turns

I believe that the artist's involvement in the capitalist structure is disadvantageous to the artist and forces him to produce objects in order to live.

Live Believe Artist I Believe Him

The thinking of John Cage derived from Duchamp and Dada. I was not interested in that.

Thinking Cage Not Interested John

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.

Simple Color Possible Line Square

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.

Work Art Understanding Looks Without

I became interested in making books, starting about 1965, when I did the Serial Project #1, deciding that I needed a small book to show how the work could be understood and how the system worked.

Work Small Book Project Starting

Buying books was a way anyone could acquire a work of art for very little.

Work Art Way Little Buying Books

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.

Art Wall Earth Development Out Just

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.

Time Art Think Too Much Know Want

During the '70s I was interested in words and meaning as a way of making art.

Art Words Meaning Way Interested

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.

Thinking End Doing You Same Over

Conceptual art became the liberating idea that gave the art of the next 40 years its real impetus.

Art Real Next Years Idea Conceptual

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