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Bruce Nauman is an influential American contemporary artist, born on December 6, 1941. Known for his unique video art and sculptures, Nauman's works often explore themes of human behavior, language, and identity.

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“In the studio, I don't do a lot of work that requires repetitive activity. I spend a lot of time looking and thinking and then try to find the most efficient way to get what I want, whether it's making a drawing or a sculpture, or casting plaster or whatever.”

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“One of the factors that still keeps me in the studio is that every so often I have to more or less start all over.”

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“What is it that an artist does when he is left alone in his studio? My conclusion was that if I was an artist and I was in the studio, then everything I was doing in the studio should be art . . . . From that point on, art became more of an activity and less of a product.”

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“Generalised anger and frustration is something that gets you in the studio, and gets you to work - though it's not necessarily evident in anything that's finished.”

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“I want to be in the studio. I want to be doing something. You just do whatever is at hand, and you don't even worry about whether it's going to be interesting or not interesting to anybody else-or even yourself. You just have to make something.”

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“If I was an artist, and I was in the studio, then whatever I was doing in the studio must be art.”

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Book:Please Pay Attention Please: Bruce Nauman's Words : Writings and Interviews

Source: Please Pay Attention Please: Bruce Nauman's Words : Writings and Interviews

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Born: December 6, 1941
Known for: Artist
Quotes: 34

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