Sol LeWitt

Don't worry about cool, make your thing.

All of the significant problems of life are insoluble and must be accepted as they are.

The artist's will is secondary to the process he initiates from idea to completion.

Conceptual art is made to engage the mind of the viewer rather than his eye or emotions.

I don't think of myself as a painter, but as an artist who uses paint.

The wall drawing is a way of making art that is not object-bound.

Art is a matter of procedure rather than of taste or intuition.

The most interesting thing about a work of art is the idea.

Once the idea is formulated, the work is done.

Drawing is the basis of art.

I want to make art that is simple but profound.

The serial form is the strongest and most beautiful.

Cubes are the simplest form.

In my work, the idea is the machine that makes the art.

Art doesn't have to be beautiful to be art.

The instructions are the work.

I am not interested in the appearance of the work, but in the idea.

Conceptual artists are mystics rather than rationalists.

The artist is a manipulator of ideas.

Form follows idea.