Talk:Sol LeWitt

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• A blind man can make art if what is in his mind can be passed to another mind in some tangible form.

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

• Conceptual art became the liberating idea that gave the art of the next 40 years its real impetus.

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

• 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 idea or concept is the most important aspect of my work.

• The system is the work of art; the visual work of art is the proof of the System. The visual aspect can't be understood without understanding the system. It isn't what it looks like but what it is that is of basic importance.

• Unless you're involved with thinking about what you're doing, you end up doing the same thing over and over, and that becomes tedious and, in the end, defeating.

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

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