78 Quotes by Sol LeWitt

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

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

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

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.

When artists make art, they shouldn't question whether it is permissible to do one thing or another.

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

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.

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

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