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Sol LeWitt Quotes

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.

Sol LeWitt

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: artist
Nationality: american
Birth: September 9, 1928 - April 8, 2007

Topics

Work Art Understanding Looks Without

Back in the day, I was always broke and was living in a converted garage at the age of 40, and then I decided I was unavailable to live my life with that reality, so I decided to change it.

Jen Sincero

Life Change Live Age Day Reality

Oftentimes what happens is that the writer understands one character, but they don't understand the other one, and the other one ends up not being written as well.

Jennifer Beals

Character Understand Up Being Well

I grew up in rural Alabama, 50 miles from Montgomery, in a very loving, wonderful family: wonderful mother, wonderful father. We attended church; we went to Sunday school every Sunday.

John Lewis

Family Father Mother School Church

My grandparents left the Pale of Settlement at the border of western Russia and Eastern Europe in the early 1900s, fleeing anti-Semitism and hoping to make a better life for their children in America.

Merrick Garland

Life Children Border Better America

In writing, I try to find the right balance between momentum and infinity, truth and beauty.

Romesh Gunesekera

Beauty Truth Balance Writing Find

It's when ordinary people rise above the expectations and seize the opportunity that milestones truly are reached.

Mike Huckabee

Opportunity People Expectations Rise

Not everything has to be a money-making operation. You do things sometimes because it makes you feel good.

Judy Sheindlin

Good Feel Good Feel You Sometimes

Acting should be an end in itself.

Chris Sarandon

End Acting Should Itself

I was first in Sydney in 1993, and have been a few times since then. For someone who didn't know Australia, it came as a shock how intelligent, interesting and funny the people were. If I lived there I might see it differently, but as a visitor it was a lot of fun.

Colm Toibin

Funny Fun People Interesting Someone

When I feel I'm repeating myself, I'll probably pack it in.

Philip Kerr

Myself Feel Repeating I Feel Pack

When I work with young people, I grab energy from them by the handsful.

Peter O'Toole

Work People Energy Young Grab Them

In circuses, there is a lot of magic. Things become other things.

Twyla Tharp

Magic Become Things Other Lot