78 Quotes by Sol LeWitt

Irrational judgements lead to new experience.

Formal art is essentially rational.

What the work of art looks like isn't too important.

[The artist's aim is] not to instruct the viewer, but to give him information... . The artist would follow his predetermined premise to its conclusion, avoiding subjectivity. Chance, taste, or unconsciously remembered forms would play no part in the outcome. The serial artist does not attempt to produce a beautiful or mysterious object but functions merely as a clerk cataloguing the results of his premise.

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

When words such as painting and sculpture are used, they connote a whole tradition and imply a consequent acceptance of this tradition, thus placing limitations on the artist who would be reluctant to make art that goes beyond the limitations.

An architect doesn't go off with a shovel and dig his foundation and lay every brick. He's still an artist.

What the work of art looks like isn't too important. It has to look like something if it has a physical form. No matter what form it may finally have it must begin with an idea. It is the process of conception and realization with which the artist is concerned.

The artist’s aim is not to instruct the viewer, but to give information, whether the viewer understands the information is incidental to the artist.