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What the work of art looks like isn't too important. it has to look like something if it has a physical form. no matter what form it may finally have it must begin with an idea. it is the process of conception and realization with which the artist is concerned.

-Sol LeWitt

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What The Work Of Art Looks Like

Sol LeWitt

What the work of art looks like isn't too important. it has to look like something if it has a physical form. no matter what form it may finally have it must begin with an idea. it is the process of conception and realization with which the artist is concerned.

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Art is frightening. art isn't pretty. art isn't painting. art isn't something you hang on the wall. art is what we do when we're truly alive. an artist is someone who uses bravery, insight, creativity, and boldness to challenge the status quo. and an artist takes it (all of it, the work, the process, the feedback from those we seek to connect with) personally.

I'm concerned about a better world. i'm concerned about justice; i'm concerned about brotherhood; i'm concerned about truth. and when one is concerned about that, he can never advocate violence. for through violence you may murder a murderer, but you can't murder murder. through violence you may murder a liar, but you can't establish truth. through violence you may murder a hater, but you can't murder hate through violence. darkness cannot put out darkness; only light can do that.

How should an artist begin to do his work as an artist? i would insist that he begin his work as an artist by setting out to make a work of art.

I don't think either party has any idea what's headed their way. their business is to remain mired in process. they call it deliberation, thoughtful, reasonable deliberation. trump doesn't know any of that. trump is not a process guy. to him, process is delay. process is obfuscation. process is incompetence. people engaging in process are a bunch of people masking the fact they don't know what they're doing, and he has no time for 'em and no patience.

What interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization. i think art since cezanne has become extremely romantic and unrealistic, feeding on art. it is utopian. it has less and less to do with the world. it looks inward - neo-zen and all that. pop art looks out into the world. it doesn't look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.

Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live-that productive work is the process by which man's consciousness controls his existence, a constant process of acquiring knowledge and shaping matter to fit one's purpose, of translating an idea into physical form, of remaking the earth in the image of one's values-that all work is creative work if done by a thinking mind.

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