A work of art may be understood as a conductor from the artist's mind to the viewer's. But it may never reach the viewer, or it may never leave the artist's mind.
Sol LewittRead
When artists make art, they shouldn't question whether it is permissible to do one thing or another.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Artists should create freely without self-doubt or restrictions.
This quote by Sol Lewitt emphasizes the importance of creative freedom for artists. It suggests that contemplating the permissibility of actions in art can hinder the creative process, and instead, artists should focus on expressing their vision without fear of judgment or constraint.
Themes
ArtCreativityFreedomExpressionArtists
In practice
Example use cases
This quote can be used in an art workshop to encourage participants to explore their creativity without fear.
More from Sol Lewitt
All quotes βOnce it is out of his hand the artist has no control over the way a viewer will perceive the work. Different people will understand the same thing in a different way.
Sol LewittRead
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.
Sol LewittRead
Artists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach.
Sol LewittRead
Buying books was a way anyone could acquire a work of art for very little.
Sol LewittRead
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.
Sol LewittRead
Similar quotes
I really believe that if you practice enough you could paint the 'Mona Lisa' with a two-inch brush.
Bob RossRead
I hate that aesthetic game of the eye and the mind, played by these connoisseurs, these mandarins who "appreciate" beauty. What is beauty, anyway? There's no such thing. I never "appreciate," any more than I "like." I love it or I hate.
Pablo PicassoRead
I've spoken often of how the fantasy genre is able to, with the greatest freedom among all the genres, take a metaphor and make it real. But of course that's only the starting point.
Steven EriksonRead
Don't worry about people stealing your design work. Worry about the day they stop.
Jeffrey ZeldmanRead
Perhaps things are most beautiful when they are not quite real; when you look upon a scene as an outsider, and come to possess it in its entirety and forever; when you live in the present with the lucidity and feeling of memory; when, for want of connection, the world deepens and becomes art.
Mark HelprinRead
I bid the chords sweet music make, And all must follow in my wake.
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheRead