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 Read Quote
The other great development has been in photography, but that too was influenced by Conceptual art. Sol LeWitt Read Quote
Conceptual art became the liberating idea that gave the art of the next 40 years its real impetus. Sol LeWitt Read Quote
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. Sol LeWitt Read Quote
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 Read Quote
The thinking of John Cage derived from Duchamp and Dada. I was not interested in that. Sol LeWitt Read Quote
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 Read Quote
