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In conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work ~ Sol LeWitt
Conceptual Art quotes by Sol LeWitt
Conceptual art became the liberating idea that gave the art of the next 40 years its real impetus. ~ Sol LeWitt
Conceptual Art quotes by Sol LeWitt
I am good in the fact that most of my reviews have been very positive really. I get pretty good reviews. There have been some that aren't - critical. I think they are extremely - the people that wrote them really don't understand what they are looking at quite frankly or have a very preconceived notion of what conceptual art should be or where I am at or the fact that I may change what I have done from what I did 20 years ago. But there is always some reason that they just sort of get it wrong. And so it certainly doesn't affect my work. ~ Robert Barry
Conceptual Art quotes by Robert Barry
Conceptual art' is an oxymoron. Concepts are articulations of fact or supposition, not attributes of quality. ~ Walter Darby Bannard
Conceptual Art quotes by Walter Darby Bannard
I'm not knocking conceptual art; it's another department, but it doesn't move me like painting. ~ Paul Simonon
Conceptual Art quotes by Paul Simonon
In fact I always disliked conceptual art, because my work is about anarchistic humor. ~ Dan Graham
Conceptual Art quotes by Dan Graham
I didn't know anything about conceptual art when I left Kansas. I went to Cal Arts to be a painter, but the exciting stuff was happening elsewhere, so I took a holiday from painting for a few years. ~ David Salle
Conceptual Art quotes by David Salle
Great art - or good art - is when you look at it, experience it and it stays in your mind. I don't think conceptual art and traditional art are all that different. ~ Damien Hirst
Conceptual Art quotes by Damien Hirst
The idea of making [conceptual] art was not a good way to approach things ... Instead I saw myself as trying to make something that my relatives could understand. ~ Sandy Skoglund
Conceptual Art quotes by Sandy Skoglund
The other great development has been in photography, but that too was influenced by Conceptual art. ~ Sol LeWitt
Conceptual Art quotes by Sol LeWitt
Passing from legality to subversion, the need of finding a minimum stimulus with a maximum effect appears - an effect that through its impact justifies the risk taken and pays for it. During certain historical periods, at the level of the object, this meant dealing with and creating mysteries. At the level of situations, and in this case, it means the change of social structure. ~ Luis Camnitzer
Conceptual Art quotes by Luis Camnitzer
I'm not anti conceptual art. I don't think painting must be revived, exactly. Art reflects life, and our lives are full of algorithms, so a lot of people are going to want to make art that's like an algorithm. But my language is painting, and painting is the opposite of that. There's something primal about it. It's innate, the need to make marks. That's why, when you're a child, you scribble. ~ Jenny Saville
Conceptual Art quotes by Jenny Saville
I'm not trying to do conceptual art. ~ Peter Sotos
Conceptual Art quotes by Peter Sotos
I make no apology for preoccupying myself with architecture, television, conceptual art, restaurants and Jane Asher's cakes. ~ Will Self
Conceptual Art quotes by Will Self
When I go to galleries in New York, I feel like I'm in school. I know that there's good contemporary conceptual art, but I have a really hard time caring about it. I'd rather look at images of people and things I can relate to. Then again, I didn't go to art school. ~ Kyp Malone
Conceptual Art quotes by Kyp Malone
Conceptual art might be, for better or worse, (definable as) the art most susceptible to lossy compression. ~ Brian Christian
Conceptual Art quotes by Brian Christian
It would be obvious for me to do conceptual art, and I think I've done it already with smashing bass guitars and whatever - I consider that as conceptual. ~ Paul Simonon
Conceptual Art quotes by Paul Simonon
I am particularly interested in creating a relationship between ideas of reception in conceptual art and theater. ~ Tim Crouch
Conceptual Art quotes by Tim Crouch
All of the significant art of today stems from Conceptual art. This includes the art of installation, political, feminist and socially directed art. ~ Sol LeWitt
Conceptual Art quotes by Sol LeWitt
After a few months in my parents' basement, I took an apartment near the state university, where I discovered both crystal methamphetamine and conceptual art. Either one of these things are dangerous, but in combination they have the potential to destroy entire civilizations. ~ David Sedaris
Conceptual Art quotes by David Sedaris
Art then becomes a safety valve for the expression of individual and collective neuroses originating in the inability of coping with the environment. Its products serve as a retarded correction of perception braked by the system of conventions and stereotypes that stabilize society. They create a slightly updated system which, eventually assimilated by history, will require a new system and so on without end. Art objects serve as points of identification alienated from the consumer, requiring more sympathy than empathy. ~ Luis Camnitzer
Conceptual Art quotes by Luis Camnitzer
John Baldessari, the 79-year-old conceptualist, has spent more than four decades making laconic, ironic conceptual art-about-art, both good and bad. ~ Jerry Saltz
Conceptual Art quotes by Jerry Saltz
Breakthrough artists always expand the very concept of freedom. ~ Talismanist Giebra
Conceptual Art quotes by Talismanist Giebra
I thought conceptual art was a joke. ~ Gian Carlo Menotti
Conceptual Art quotes by Gian Carlo Menotti
Not only were the minds of artists formed by the university; in the same mold were formed those of the art historians, the critics, the curators, and the collectors by whom their work was evaluated. With the rise of Conceptual art, the classroom announced its final triumph over the studio. ~ Harold Rosenberg
Conceptual Art quotes by Harold Rosenberg
I think the term 'conceptual art' is a useful term for writers, a basket to put people in, like Pop Art or Impressionism or whatever. ~ John Baldessari
Conceptual Art quotes by John Baldessari
Philosophy has a great sort of appeal in terms of an artistic or aesthetic organization of concepts. It's a conceptual art. ~ William H Gass
Conceptual Art quotes by William H Gass
[T]he art of life is more like navigation than warfare, for what is important is to understand the winds, the tides, the currents, the seasons, and the principles of growth and decay, so that one's actions may use them and not fight them. ~ Alan W. Watts
Conceptual Art quotes by Alan W. Watts
Design is an art of situations. Designers respond to a need, a problem, a circumstance, that arises in the world. The best work is produced in relation to interesting situations - an open-minded client, a good cause, or great content. ~ Ellen Lupton
Conceptual Art quotes by Ellen Lupton
The mystery of sound is mysticism; the harmony of life is religion. The knowledge of vibrations is metaphysics, the analysis of atoms is science, and their harmonious grouping is art. The rhythm of form is poetry, and the rhythm of sound is music. This shows that music is the art of arts and the science of allsciences; and it contains the fountain of all knowledge within itself. ~ Hazrat Inayat Khan
Conceptual Art quotes by Hazrat Inayat Khan
You can actually take your pain and processes it into some kind of form of art. So I mean, I've easily always been able to do that, but also I've always been able to give myself perspective - or, you know, older people always give you perspective. ~ Chuck D
Conceptual Art quotes by Chuck D
A man who has attained mastery of an art reveals it in his every action. ~ Gogen Yamaguchi
Conceptual Art quotes by Gogen Yamaguchi
When weary with the long day's care,
And earthly change from pain to pain,
And lost, and ready to despair,
Thy kind voice calls me back again
O my true friend, I am not lone
While thou canst speak with such a tone!

So hopeless is the world without,
The world within I doubly prize;
Thy world where guile and hate and doubt
And cold suspicion never rise;
Where thou and I and Liberty
Have undisputed sovereignty.

What matters it that all around
Danger and grief and darkness lie,
If but within our bosom's bound
We hold a bright unsullied sky,
Warm with ten thousand mingled rays
Of suns that know no winter days?

Reason indeed may oft complain
For Nature's sad reality,
And tell the suffering heart how vain
Its cherished dreams must always be;
And Truth may rudely trample down
The flowers of Fancy newly blown.

But thou art ever there to bring
The hovering visions back and breathe
New glories o'er the blighted spring
And call a lovelier life from death,
And whisper with a voice divine
Of real worlds as bright as thine.

I trust not to thy phantom bliss,
Yet still in evening's quiet hour
With never-failing thankfulness I
welcome thee, benignant power,
Sure solacer of human cares
And brighter hope when hope despairs. ~ Emily Bronte
Conceptual Art quotes by Emily Bronte
Forget your ideas about art. Make a shopping list of everything you like about what you've done. Include qualities that you've seen in your life, in the world, and possibly in art that you like. Take this list and make a work that satisfies all of the things on your list without caring if it looks like art. ~ Joseph Kosuth
Conceptual Art quotes by Joseph Kosuth
Art lies in the moment of encounter: we meet ourselves and we meet our self-expression. We become original because we become something specific, an origin from which work flows. ~ Julia Cameron
Conceptual Art quotes by Julia Cameron
Is it that the joy that comes from other people always risks sadness, because even when love doesn't fail, mortality enters in; is it that there is a place where sadness and joy are not distinct, where all emotion lies together, a sort of ocean into which the tributary streams of distinct emotions go, a faraway deep inside; is it that such sadness is only the side effect of art that describes the depths of our lives, and to see that described in all its potential for loneliness and pain is beautiful? ~ Rebecca Solnit
Conceptual Art quotes by Rebecca Solnit
A work should convey its entire meaning by itself, imposing it on the spectator even before he knows what the subject is. ~ Marcel Proust
Conceptual Art quotes by Marcel Proust
The real artist has no pride. Unfortunately he sees that his art has no limits. He feels obscurely how far he is from the goal.
While he is perhaps being admired by others, he mourns the fact that he has not yet reached the point to which his better genius, like a distant sun, ever beckons to him. ~ Ludwig Van Beethoven
Conceptual Art quotes by Ludwig Van Beethoven
Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people's brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead. When independent-thinking people (and here I do not include the corporate media) begin to rally under flags, when writers, painters, musicians, film makers suspend their judgment and blindly yoke their art to the service of the "Nation," it's time for all of us to sit up and worry. ~ Arundhati Roy
Conceptual Art quotes by Arundhati Roy
Your actions create an "energy vortex" that draws in the necessary ingredients for your venture. ~ Chris Prentiss
Conceptual Art quotes by Chris Prentiss
Journalism is the art of collecting varying kinds of information (commonly called news) which a few people possess and of transmitting it to a much larger number of people who are supposed to desire to share it. ~ Henry R. Luce
Conceptual Art quotes by Henry R. Luce
True philosophical atheism must be regarded as a superstition, often nurtured by an infantile wish to live in a world proportionate to one's own hopes or conceptual limitations. ~ David Bentley Hart
Conceptual Art quotes by David Bentley Hart
IN PERSIA I SAW that poetry is meant to be set to music & chanted or sung
for one reason alone
because it works.
A right combination of image & tune plunges the audience into a hal (something between emotional/aesthetic mood & trance of hyperawareness), outbursts of weeping, fits of dancing
measurable physical response to art. For us the link between poetry & body died with the bardic era
we read under the influence of a cartesian anaesthetic gas. ~ Hakim Bey
Conceptual Art quotes by Hakim Bey
I should like to make life beautiful--I mean everybody's life. And then all this immense expense of art, that seems somehow to lie outside life and make it no better for the world, pains one. It spoils my enjoyment of anything when I am made to think that most people are shut out from it."

I call that the fanaticism of sympathy," said Will, impetuously. "You might say the same of landscape, of poetry, of all refinement. If you carried it out you ought to be miserable in your own goodness, and turn evil that you might have no advantage over others. The best piety is to enjoy--when you can. You are doing the most then to save the earth's character as an agreeable planet. And enjoyment radiates. It is of no use to try and take care of all the world; that is being taken care of when you feel delight--in art or in anything else. Would you turn all the youth of the world into a tragic chorus, wailing and moralising over misery? I suspect that you have some false belief in the virtues of misery, and want to make your life a martyrdom. ~ George Eliot
Conceptual Art quotes by George Eliot
Things that bring out your emotions are what should be in theaters and in books. That's what art is. It makes you feel things. ~ Dominique Swain
Conceptual Art quotes by Dominique Swain
The only art form that Americans have created that's recognized around the world is jazz music born in a community that had the peculiar experience of being unfree in a free land. ~ Ken Burns
Conceptual Art quotes by Ken Burns
Artists no longer starve in garrets. Some people may think this is not wholly a good thing, that being an artist has become too comfortable, at least in the West. I'm not sure I agree. It's a mark of civilization to encourage the arts and the life of the mind. ~ J.M. Coetzee
Conceptual Art quotes by J.M. Coetzee
Jiu Jitsu opened up doors in my mind that public education had bolted shut. In hindsight, I see just how superficial my thoughts had been prior to this art. It is no coincidence that my efforts in reading and writing have run parallel with this craft. I began training Jiu Jitsu at twenty-two, and at the time of this writing I am about to turn thirty. I have learned more in the past eight years than the previous twenty-two, and have no doubts that Jiu Jitsu opened up my mind in a way traditional organized education never could. Jiu Jitsu gave me a life when I didn't know how to live. It is the best thing I have ever done, and is the foundation upon which all I will do. ~ Chris Matakas
Conceptual Art quotes by Chris Matakas
Film is a collaborative art form. I don't know why you wouldn't recognize the stunt performers. ~ David Leitch
Conceptual Art quotes by David Leitch
Art is born and takes hold wherever there is a timeless and insatiable longing for the spiritual. ~ Andrei Tarkovsky
Conceptual Art quotes by Andrei Tarkovsky
'The Bradshaws' is the appropriately inappropriate English title given to an enigma - some hundreds of thousands of mysterious rock art paintings scattered through the wilds of the Kimberley, an area larger than Germany in the remote, scarcely populated northwest of Australia. ~ Richard Flanagan
Conceptual Art quotes by Richard Flanagan
Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry. ~ Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Conceptual Art quotes by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Learn the art of living in the desert from a camel; learn the art of jumping from a kangaroo! The person who does the job best is also the best teacher in that job! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Conceptual Art quotes by Mehmet Murat Ildan
Art to be art must soothe. ~ Mahatma Gandhi
Conceptual Art quotes by Mahatma Gandhi
Art is the act of doing work that matters while dancing with the voice in your head that screams for you to stop. ~ Seth Godin
Conceptual Art quotes by Seth Godin
Hardening of the categories causes art disease. ~ W. Eugene Smith
Conceptual Art quotes by W. Eugene Smith
I am sure that there is no place in the world where your message would not be enhanced by your making the place (whether tiny or large, a hut or a palace) orderly, artistic and beautiful with some form of creativity, some form of 'art' (p. 213). ~ Edith Schaeffer
Conceptual Art quotes by Edith Schaeffer
The water caught the Falselight glimmer like layers of shifting, translucent mirrors and formed split-second works of art in the air, but men cursed it anyway, because it made their heads wet. ~ Scott Lynch
Conceptual Art quotes by Scott Lynch
Art is not cozy and it is not mocked. Art tells the only truth that ultimately matters. It is the light by which human things can be mended. And after art there is, let me assure you all, nothing. ~ Iris Murdoch
Conceptual Art quotes by Iris Murdoch
The highly sensitive [introverted] tend to be philosophical or spiritual in their orientation, rather than materialistic or hedonistic. They dislike small talk. They often describe themselves as creative or intuitive. They dream vividly, and can often recall their dreams the next day. They love music, nature, art, physical beauty. They feel exceptionally strong emotions
sometimes acute bouts of joy, but also sorrow, melancholy, and fear. Highly sensitive people also process information about their environments
both physical and emotional
unusually deeply. They tend to notice subtleties that others miss
another person's shift in mood, say, or a lightbulb burning a touch too brightly. ~ Susan Cain
Conceptual Art quotes by Susan Cain
So all that fame had lasted less than a hundred years! Les Orientales, Les Meditations, La Comedie Humaine - forgotten, lost, unknown! Yet here were huge crates of books which giant steam cranes were unloading in the courtyards, and buyers were crowding around the purchase desk. But one of them was asking for 'Stress Theory' in twenty volumes, another for an 'Abstract of Electric Problems', this one for 'A Practical Treatise for the Lubrication of Driveshafts', and that one for the latest 'Monograph on Cancer of the Brain'. 'How strange!' mused Michel. 'All of science and industry here, just as at school, nothing for art!' I must sound like a madman asking for literary works here - am I insane? ~ Jules Verne
Conceptual Art quotes by Jules Verne
Everything built with an art, May your eyes couldn't see it, but digital eye can. ~ Chanaka Satharasinghe.
Conceptual Art quotes by Chanaka Satharasinghe.
LYNDA (TO TINY):
Look forward to the moment
when it falls apart.
Look forward to the
moment
when you must
rearrange your
heart.
It might feel like the
end of the world-
but it's the
beginning of your
art. ~ David Levithan
Conceptual Art quotes by David Levithan
Art is, from any point of view, the greatest of risks. ~ Jean Helion
Conceptual Art quotes by Jean Helion
My parents were always supportive of me in terms of expressing myself artistically. Art, musical instruments, singing - whatever I did, they were just really supportive. ~ Justin Chon
Conceptual Art quotes by Justin Chon
Before I studied the art, a punch to me was just like a punch, a kick just like a kick. After I learned the art, a punch was no longer a punch, a kick no longer a kick. Now that I've understood the art, a punch is just like a punch, a kick just like a kick. The height of cultivation is really nothing special. It is merely simplicity; the ability to express the utmost with the minimum. ~ Bruce Lee
Conceptual Art quotes by Bruce Lee
Sun Tzu Wu was a native of the Ch`i State. His Art of War brought him to the notice of Ho Lu, King of Wu. Ho Lu said to him: "I have carefully perused your 13 chapters. May I submit your theory of managing soldiers to a slight test? ~ Sun Tzu
Conceptual Art quotes by Sun Tzu
To be honest, I think, for me, the power is always with art. The art world clearly couldn't happen without art. ~ Hans Ulrich Obrist
Conceptual Art quotes by Hans Ulrich Obrist
Has it ever happened, you've seen a striking film, beautifully written and acted and photographed, that you walk out of the theater glad to be a human being and you say to yourself I hope they make a lot of money from that? I hope the actors, I hope the director earns a million dollars for what they've done, what they've given me tonight? And you go back and see the movie again and you're happy to be a tiny part of the system that is rewarding those people with every ticket ... the actors I see on the screen, they'll get twenty cents of this very dollar I'm paying now; they'll be able to buy an ice cream cone any flavor they want from their share of my ticket alone. Glorious moments in art in books and films and dance, they're delicious because we see ourselves in glory's mirror. ~ Richard Bach
Conceptual Art quotes by Richard Bach
Bruised egos never rest well in a lovers nest. ~ J.WOLF
Conceptual Art quotes by J.WOLF
Water! pretending to be pure, thou resemblest false friends. Thou art warm at the top and cold at bottom. ~ Victor Hugo
Conceptual Art quotes by Victor Hugo
To create today is to create dangerously. Any publication is an act, and that act exposes one to the passions of an age that forgives nothing. ~ Albert Camus
Conceptual Art quotes by Albert Camus
To me, the world and art of photography is to capture emotion, feelings and moments; and share it with the world.
I master the art when I am capable of awaking emotion in other people through my images. ~ Viktor Tatarczuk
Conceptual Art quotes by Viktor Tatarczuk
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