About Sol LeWitt: Solomon "Sol" LeWitt was an American artist linked to various movements, including Conceptual art and Minimalism.
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.
You shouldn't be a prisoner of your own ideas.
Artists teach critics what to think. Critics repeat what the artists teach them.
I became interested in making books, starting about 1965, when I did the Serial Project #1, deciding that I needed a small book to show how the work could be understood and how the system worked.