“I was always interested in language. I thought, why not? If a painting, by the normal definition of the term, is paint on canvas, why can't it be painted words on canvas?” IfsLanguageTermPaintingNormalPaintDefinitionsWhy NotCanvas Author:John Baldessari
“A lot of ideas don't translate very well into art. To say, "Oh my god, the grass is green ..." You're going to end up with a big green painting.” WellsArtIdeasEndsBigsPaintingGreenGrassTranslate Author:John Baldessari
“The idea was to take fine art and put it into the location of the movie scripts. The script itself is collage - some of the lines come from actual movies and I've written others to make the text work with the found image. In this way, the details of old dead guys' paintings (from the collection of the Städel Museum in Frankfurt, where this work will be exhibited in relation to the historical paintings) become illustrations of the movie scripts. I found this mélange of high art and Hollywood amusing.” WayArtIdeasGuyFoundLinesWrittenPaintingFineHollywoodRelationHistoricalScriptsDetailsCollectionsMuseumsLocationAmusingFine ArtsIllustrationCollagesHigh ArtFrankfurt Author:John Baldessari
“I didn't see painters doing paintings of glassware and glass shelves or sand dunes and receding snow fences. Why does that interest photographers and not artists?” DoeArtistInterestPaintingPhotographerGlassesSnowPainterSandShelvesFenceSand Dunes Author:John Baldessari
“Ideally I would like the work to be a hybrid between painting and photography.” PaintingPhotographyHybrid Author:John Baldessari
