Sol LeWitt Quotes

Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.

Social change can be seen as a mosaic, taking that which is broken and creating something new.

Some people accuse the new generation of being ignorant, maybe ignorant for the old generation, but it's a new language.

In my parents' generation, rebellion was pop culture. It's not anymore.

I feel I grew up in a different century than I live in. I think most of them are changes for the good.

You don't have to be old in America to say of a world you lived in: That world is gone.

A cultural shift is not always an ideological one - or at least not always the one you imagine. Our norms are always evolving.

From education by the Church to education by Germanic value is a step of several generations.

That's maybe the most important thing each generation does, is to break a lot of rules and make up their own way of doing things.

Not long ago, a hat was a conformist accessory. Then the 1960s came along, and young people didn't want to wear hats.

My father was like the Old Testament. I am the New Testament. I am part of a new generation. In time, people will realize this.

I'm a child of the Sixties.

Beliefs and values that have held sway for thousands of years will be questioned as never before.

I think the culture today is very, very different from what it was in the '60s, and I feel lucky that I grew up at a time when I had these very strong female role models.

We think it is complicated to change the world. Change comes little by little. Nothing worthwhile can happen in one generation.

We are witnessing an enormous shift of collective consciousness throughout the world. We are at the precipice of great transformation within our culture and government.

How could 30 years be the blink-of-the-eye it felt? It was the difference between black-and-white footage of the Second World War and David Bowie on 'Top of the Pops' singing 'Life on Mars.'

When I was a kid growing up in the '60s, music was an outlet for enlightenment, frustration, rebellion. It was more about individualism. Today it's just like a big business.

The Beatles' story is all of our stories. It is about how the youth culture emerged, the drug culture emerged, how politics rose to the fore as a universal debate. It's about rebellion, it's about the growth of the British entertainment system, the growth of the rock n' roll entertainment system.

It's never popular among young people to be part of the establishment.

In 1952, when I was 15 and living on Governors Island, which was then First Army Headquarters, I encountered the newly-published 'The Catcher in the Rye.' Of course, that book became the iconic anti-establishment novel for my generation.

Tradition, by its very nature, includes continuous change.

A society based on … reality must reconcile in its life, the categories of permanence and change.

Every new theory encounters opposition and rejection at first. The adherents of the old, accepted doctrine object to the new theory, refuse it recognition, and declare it to be mistaken. Years, even decades, must pass before it succeeds in supplanting the old one. A new generation must grow up before its victory is decisive.

Life used to be a rite of passage in and of itself. But it's not our parents' generation anymore.