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Quote by John Baldessari

“Well, why is this art? Why isn't that art?”

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John Baldessari is an influential American artist born on June 17, 1931. Known for his unique artistic style and conceptual art works, his art often explores the relationship between art and life, reality and fiction. more

“I was teaching live drawing in a community college and students started zoning in on the face and spending a couple of hours on that and then putting the rest of the body on the face only in the last hour. It didn't work to just tell them, 'Well, you're really not thinking of the body as a totality.' So in desperation I would put a drape over the model's head so they couldn't see it. They had to draw the body and then at the end of the session for an hour I would take the drape off just to try to reverse their procedure.”

“But the answer to how to live is to stop thinking about it. And just to live. But you're doing that anyway. However you intellectualise it, you still just live.”

Thinking Stills Answers Just Live

Author:Damien Hirst

“Here's one from me: 'You have to be aware that everyone else is thinking far too hard about themselves to be thinking about you, whoever you are.' If you want it, you can have it. Once you know that, you can be free.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Want Hard Thinking About You

Book:On the Way to Work

Source: On the Way to Work

“I like the confusion you get between science and religion … that’s where belief lies and art as well.”

Wells Art Lying Belief Confusion Science And Religion

Author:Damien Hirst

“It's very easy to say, 'I could have done that,' after someone's done it. But I did it. You didn't. It didn't exist until I did it.”

Done Easy

Author:Damien Hirst

“Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.”

Term Immortality Immortal Desirable

Author:Damien Hirst

“In fact, the first piece of art I ever sold, I paid someone else to make the next one, so I could actually keep going out drinking.”

Firsts Art Facts Next Pieces Paid Drinking Keep Going Going Out The Next One

Author:Damien Hirst

“I can’t wait to get into a position to make really bad art and get away with it.”

Art I Can Waiting Position Get Away

Author:Damien Hirst

“When we are no longer children, we are already dead.”

Children

Author:Damien Hirst

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