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Every generation renews itself in its own way; there's always a reaction against whatever is standard. ↗

— Sol LeWitt

#always #every #generation #itself #own

The Foxhall jaw has now been missing for many years. ↗

— Louis Leakey

#jaw #many #missing #now #years

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

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. ↗

— Sol LeWitt

#anyone #art #being #concept #form

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

— Sol LeWitt

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

— Sol LeWitt

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

— Sol LeWitt

#anyone #art #books #buying #could

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

— Sol LeWitt

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

— Sol LeWitt

#during #i #interested #making #meaning

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. ↗

— Sol LeWitt

#became #book #books #could #deciding