top of page
.png){kind=small}
"The thinking of John Cage derived from Duchamp and Dada. I was not interested in that."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Thinking quotes
"Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking."
"After all,'I've been thinking' meant she had previously identified the parameters and analyzed all the branching considerations."
"Don't think you are going to go on forever because you are not and begin to plan something that will compensate as you reduce your capacities to leap or turn on this or that or the other, begin thinking of something else."
"I don't think we have very good records about what they were thinking except, as I pointed out earlier today, that they did invent our political system."
"When I think of all the years in my 30s when I starved myself... but when I got the role of Lois, I stopped thinking about my looks and was just myself."
"I'm never a person who likes anything I've done. It's just the way it is. Twenty years later, I can look at something I did, and I'm still thinking, 'You know, that could have been better if you had done it this way or that way."
"Thinking no longer means anymore than checking at each moment whether one can indeed think."
"It makes us feel better that everyone out there is thinking of Maurice."
Explore more quotes by Sol LeWitt
"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."
"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."
"The other great development has been in photography, but that too was influenced by Conceptual art."
"A blind man can make art if what is in his mind can be passed to another mind in some tangible form."
"The artist is seen like a producer of commodities, like a factory that turns our refrigerators."
"Conceptual art became the liberating idea that gave the art of the next 40 years its real impetus."
"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."
"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."
bottom of page