A Quote by Sol LeWitt
Artists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach.
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We leap to conclusions and remember those conclusions as fact. We react on our own prejudices but don't always recognize them as such.
Any explanation or logic that explains everything so easily has a hidden trap in it. I'm speaking from experience. Somebody once said if it's something a single book can explain, it's not worth having explained. What I mean is don't leap to any conclusions.
For millennia, artists and mystics have pondered the question of how to represent that which, by definition, cannot or must not be represented.
People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.
You cannot find what you do not seek. You cannot grasp when you do not reach. Your dreams won't come up to your front door. You have got to take a leap if you want to soar.
Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.
It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world.
The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.
Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell.
The best artists are people who don't consider themselves artists, and the people who do are usually the most pretentious and annoying. They've got their priorities wrong. They're just doing it to be artists rather than because they want to do it.
Before me is the abyss. How can I leap across it? And if I do not leap, how shall I ever be able to reach God?
In God's school we learn through the heart rather than through the head, and by faith rather than logic.
After thee accumulation of too much history we have lost our innocence, we cannot easily believe in any explanations. We describe rather than feel, we touch rather than explore, we lust rather than adore.
To come up short when you reach too far is not such a bad thing rather than not to reach at all, right?
Television's compelling power is its immediacy . .. this immediacy feeds the politics of emotions, gut reactions and impressions rather than the politics of logic, facts and reason; it emphasizes personality rather than issues.
But I'd rather help than watch. I'd rather have a heart than a mind. I'd rather expose too much than too little. I'd rather say hello to strangers than be afraid of them. I would rather know all this about myself than have more money than I need. I'd rather have something to love than a way to impress you.
Weariness that wants to reach the ultimate with one leap, with one fatal leap, a poor ignorant weariness that does not want to want any more: this created all gods and afterworlds.
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