Sol LeWitt

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

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

— Sol LeWitt

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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

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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. ↗

— Sol LeWitt

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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. ↗

— Sol LeWitt

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I was not interested in irony; I wanted to emphasize the primacy of the idea in making art. ↗

— Sol LeWitt

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Minimal art went nowhere. ↗

— Sol LeWitt

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

— Sol LeWitt

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The other great development has been in photography, but that too was influenced by Conceptual art. ↗

— Sol LeWitt

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