78 Quotes by Sol LeWitt

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.

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.

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

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

The thinking of John Cage derived from Duchamp and Dada. I was not interested in that.

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

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

Conceptual art is only good if the idea is good.

One should be intelligent enough to know when not to be too intellectual