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.
More Quotes by Sol LeWitt
When artists make art, they shouldn't question whether it is permissible to do one thing or another.
Conceptual art became the liberating idea that gave the art of the next 40 years its real impetus.
In my case, I used the elements of these simple forms - square, cube, line and color - to produce logical systems. Most of these systems were finite; that is, they were complete using all possible variations. This kept them simple.
You shouldn't be a prisoner of your own ideas.
Minimalism wasn't a real idea - it ended before it started.
The thinking of John Cage derived from Duchamp and Dada. I was not interested in that.