Sol LeWitt

Sol LeWitt is an artist linked to various movements including conceptual art and minimalism. His mediums are predominantly painting, drawing, and structures (a term he prefers in opposition to sculpture.)

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• Artists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach.
  • 0-9 (New York), 1969, and Art-Language (England), May 1969

• 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.
  • “Serial Project #1, 1966,” Aspen 5/6 (Fall/Winter 1967)

• The artist’s will is secondary to the process he initiates from idea to completion.. ..His wilfulness may only be ego.. ..The process is mechanical and should not be tampered with. It should run its course.
  • as quoted in Gerhard Richter, Doubt and belief in painting, Robert Storr, MOMA, New York, 2003, p. 88, note 17