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Sol LeWitt

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You shouldn't be a prisoner of your own ideas.


— Sol LeWitt


#own #prisoner #you #your

A blind man can make art if what is in his mind can be passed to another mind in some tangible form.


— Sol LeWitt


#art #blind #blind man #form #his

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.


— Sol LeWitt


#basis #continuation #development #drawings #earth

The narrative of serial art works more like music than like literature.


— Sol LeWitt


#like #literature #more #music #narrative

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.


— Sol LeWitt


#becomes #defeating #doing #end #in the end

All of the significant art of today stems from Conceptual art. This includes the art of installation, political, feminist and socially directed art.


— Sol LeWitt


#conceptual #conceptual art #directed #feminist #includes

Artists of many diverse types began using simple forms to their own ends.


— Sol LeWitt


#began #diverse #ends #forms #many

Artists teach critics what to think. Critics repeat what the artists teach them.


— Sol LeWitt


#critics #repeat #teach #them #think

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


— Sol LeWitt


#anyone #art #books #buying #could

Minimalism wasn't a real idea - it ended before it started.


— Sol LeWitt


#ended #idea #minimalism #real #real idea






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Sol LeWitt: Artist's Books. While their forms are curvilinear playful and seem almost random they are also drawn according to an exacting set of guidelines. His frequent use of open modular structures originates from the cube a form that influenced the artist’s thinking from the time that he first became an artist.

Solomon "Sol" LeWitt (September 9 1928 – April 8 2007) was an American artist linked to various movements including Conceptual art and Minimalism. He has been the subject of hundreds of solo exhibitions in museums and galleries around the world since 1965.

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