78 Quotes by Sol LeWitt

I wasn’t really that interested in objects. I was interested in ideas.

A work of art may be understood as a conductor from the artist’s mind to the viewer’s. But it may never reach the viewer, or it may never leave the artist’s mind.

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

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.

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

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.