“I'm not against art fairs, in fact this last one I even made money, but the concept is really disgusting. If you're that rich to be able to hang out for two or three days, you're certainly rich enough to get on a plane and go to Munich or Düsseldorf or wherever and see somebody's real show instead of this stuff just stacked around.” IfsArtMadeTwoRealEnoughFactsShowsAbleLastsThreeStuffRichConceptsFairsPlanesHanging OutDisgustingMunich Author:Lawrence Weiner
“Genitive is a funny word because it means "from," but it also is the gender in European languages for objects: the masculine, feminine, and neuter. So if you have a genitive present, there's room for everybody to fit in. I just did a project in Vienna about rock, paper, scissor; you change the gender and it simply changes the whole thing. Rock is no longer a male. It doesn't function the same way.” IfsWayMeanWholeLanguageRoomsRocksObjectsFitPaperProjectsFunctionMalesGenderFeminineMasculineVienna Author:Lawrence Weiner
“I'm keeping everything on a human level, but essentially everything in our lives has to be on a human level. Any specification of something by art history doesn't make any sense. The point is, if you have a loving, adorable, supportive mother anywhere in the world and you tell her all of your dreams, all of your aspirations, and the reward you would like, and she understands you, then it's not worth doing.” IfsWorldHumansArtDreamMotherLevelsOur LivesRewardsYour DreamsAspirationSupportiveAdorableArt HistorySpecifications Author:Lawrence Weiner
“Think about it: you've already related it down to something that somebody else can understand. If art relates to something - it's like Picasso, it's like Mondrian - it's not. Art's supposed to be what it is. Using a reference of art history might help for some kind of sales, but it doesn't really help anybody. Art is what it is; it cannot be footnoted, until it enters the world. Then it has a history. Then the footnotes are the history, not the explanation.” IfsThinkingWorldKindArtHelpingMightArt IsSupposed To BeRelateExplanationRelatedArt HistoryFootnotes Author:Lawrence Weiner
“The only art I'm interested in is the art I don't understand right away. If you understand it right away it really has no use except as nostalgia.” IfsArtUseUnderstandingInterestNostalgia Author:Lawrence Weiner
“Art history is fine. I mean, that's a discipline. Art history is art history, and you start from the beginning and you end up in artist in time. But art is a little bit different. Art is a conversation. And if there's no conversation, what the hell is it about?” IfsMeanLittlesArtDifferentEndsArtistBitsHellFineDisciplineConversationLittle BitArt IsArt History Author:Lawrence Weiner
“There is a discrepancy of somebody going to an art dealer and promising what they'll make for the next three years. And I'm old fashioned that way; I think that every exhibition you make is supposed to put you in the world, that the next exhibition is spinning off of that. It's almost like a riff. And if you know what you're going to do for the next three years, why don't just do it the final point? You would think, in a progressive situation, that the final would be the best.” IfsThinkingKnowsWorldWayYearsArtWould BeThreeNextSituationFinalsBeing The BestProgressiveThree YearsOld FashionedSpinningJust Do ItDealerExhibitionsDiscrepancies Author:Lawrence Weiner
“I only work in relation to what the work is about. Yes, of course, if the world's coming to an end I would basically try to get out of the way when the sky falls.” IfsWorldWayTryingEndsFallCoursesSkyRelationComing To An End Author:Lawrence Weiner
“Quantum physics - the idea that there is more than one reality going on at the same time in the same place. We live in a concentric society, and we'll have to make our decisions, cake as pie, as pending resolve. It's really and truly - I don't know if "as" will count any longer.” IfsKnowsIdeasRealityDecisionPhysicsResolveCakeQuantumPieQuantum PhysicsPending Author:Lawrence Weiner
“I would imagine, a very large percentage of people who get something for art and they do something else, and they have some excess resources. And they trade those resources with artists whose work makes them feel good, or feel better, or question. And the artist, if they're smart, they use it to buy the most expensive thing in the world: time to make more. The more that come, the better it is for these people, their children, the people they care about, fills the society with a real constant thing.” PeopleIfsWorldFeelsChildrenArtRealUseCareArtistImagineSmartResourcesTradeConstantFeel GoodExpensiveExcessFeel BetterPercentages Author:Lawrence Weiner
“I think it's a waste of time to worry about the motives of why people are supportive of things. I think we should look at the thing itself. And if they're supportive of something that's sexist or racist, then it's a bad thing, but it's not because they're supportive of it that it's a bad thing.” PeopleIfsThinkingShouldLooksWorryWasteMotiveRacistBad ThingsWasting TimeSupportiveSexist Author:Lawrence Weiner
“Trying to make certain things on the Internet totally private unless you subscribe. It's not going to work. If you can figure out how to close something down, somebody can figure out how to open it up. That's art.” IfsTryingArtCertainFiguresInternetGoing To Work Author:Lawrence Weiner
“People, buying my stuff, can take it wherever they go and can rebuild it if they choose. If they keep it in their heads, that's fine too. They don't have to buy it to have it - they can just have it by knowing it.” PeopleIfsStuffKnowingFineBuying Author:Lawrence Weiner
