Best Conceptual Art Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“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.”

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Author:Luis Camnitzer

“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.”

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Author:Luis Camnitzer

“Our concept is sharing,' lisped Sam, 'as a waiter once said to me in a restaurant I never went back to. The food was delicious, but I couldn't get past the "concept". I can just about put up with conceptual art—if I'm caught in a thunderstorm and there's a warm gallery across the street—but conceptual food is out of the question.”

Humor Food Conceptual Art

Book:Parallel Lines

Source: Parallel Lines

“It true, Bigfoot career been in hole lately. Bigfoot mania of the ‘70’s and ‘80’s but distant memory. I famous for ability to not be see but don’t think I not notice you not notice. I blame music television and internet. People too lazy and stupid to appreciate conceptual artist like Bigfoot who appeal is absence.”

Bigfoot Conceptual Art Attention Spans

Book:Me Write Book: It Bigfoot Memoir

Source: Me Write Book: It Bigfoot Memoir

“The avant-garde is a connotation, every act here is a connotative value. The whole series of avant-garde movements do not signify, and yet their concepts are reconnotation.”

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Author:Vladan Kuzmanovic

“Breakthrough artists always expand the very concept of freedom.”

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Book:Talismanist: Fragments of the Ancient Fire. Philosophy of Fragmentism Series.

Source: Talismanist: Fragments of the Ancient Fire. Philosophy of Fragmentism Series.

“Theory is the concept of art.”

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Author:Vladan Kuzmanovic

“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.”

“Conceptual art' is an oxymoron. Concepts are articulations of fact or supposition, not attributes of quality.”

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Author:Walter Darby Bannard

“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.”

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Author:David Salle

“I make no apology for preoccupying myself with architecture, television, conceptual art, restaurants and Jane Asher's cakes.”

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Author:Will Self

“Conceptual art is entirely word-bound. It is, in fact, the kind of art that is exhausted in its verbal description.”

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Author:Alexander Stoddart

“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.”

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Author:John Baldessari

“I didn't want to be criticized for taking low-quality photographs, so I tried to reach the best, highest quality of photography and then to combine this with a conceptual art practice. But thinking back, that was the wrong decision [laughs]. Developing a low-quality aesthetic is a sign of serious fine art-I still see this.”

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Author:Hiroshi Sugimoto

“I am particularly interested in creating a relationship between ideas of reception in conceptual art and theater.”

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Author:Tim Crouch

“Philosophy has a great sort of appeal in terms of an artistic or aesthetic organization of concepts. It's a conceptual art.”

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Author:William H. Gass

“I have never understood, for instance, why some people see contemporary art as divided between 'painting' and 'conceptual art', as though this represented a genuine division.”

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Author:Michael Craig-Martin

“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.”

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Author:Damien Hirst

“Conceptual art is only good if the idea is good.”

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Author:Sol LeWitt

“Obviously my own work comes from a conceptual art tradition, but I love the graffiti artists, and I feel spiritually closer to them than to most contemporary art; they make the city a free space of diverse voices and we shouldn't get all cynical about them just because Banksy made some money. I collaborate sometimes with Krae, who is an old school east London graffiti writer.”

“The most important lesson I received from Conceptual art consisted in the recording of simple and obvious things, and viewing them under a whole new light.”

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Author:Luigi Ghirri

“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.”

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Author:Sandy Skoglund

“Conceptual art might be, for better or worse, (definable as) the art most susceptible to lossy compression.”

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Author:Brian Christian

“What art is not processed? "Conceptual art." Somebody making a painting has to conceive of the size. I don't understand where these words came from. I can't accept the fact that the concept of art as our concept of humanity is expanding.”

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Author:Lawrence Weiner

“I always thought there was a - even in the most, quote, "conceptual art," there is always a physical aspect to it. I never knew what the term meant.”

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Author:Robert Barry

“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.”

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Author:Robert Barry

“One of my most strong memories was studying with Mel Bochner, one of the, I think, high water marks of American conceptual art.”

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Author:Kehinde Wiley

“So much of the hubris that surrounded conceptual art in the 1950s through '70s was that it had this arrogant presupposition that pointing in and of itself was a creative act. It never rigorously politically and socially analyzed the fact that the luxury to point is something that so many people throughout the world don't have.”

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Author:Kehinde Wiley

“All of the significant art of today stems from Conceptual art. This includes the art of installation, political, feminist and socially directed art.”

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Author:Sol LeWitt

“Conceptual art became the liberating idea that gave the art of the next 40 years its real impetus.”

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Author:Sol LeWitt

“The other great development has been in photography, but that too was influenced by Conceptual art.”

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Author:Sol LeWitt

“John Baldessari, the 79-year-old conceptualist, has spent more than four decades making laconic, ironic conceptual art-about-art, both good and bad.”

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Author:Jerry Saltz

“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.”

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Book:Me Talk Pretty One Day

Source: Me Talk Pretty One Day

“The idea becomes a machine that makes the art.”

Art Ideas Machines Conceptual Art

Book:From the Collection of Sol LeWitt: A Traveling Exhibition Organized and Circulated by Independent Curators Incorporated, New York

Source: From the Collection of Sol LeWitt: A Traveling Exhibition Organized and Circulated by Independent Curators Incorporated, New York

“In conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work”

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Author:Sol LeWitt

“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.”

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Author:Jenny Saville

“In fact I always disliked conceptual art, because my work is about anarchistic humor.”

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Author:Dan Graham

“I remember going into galleries and seeing this thing called conceptual art, and I understand people’s marginalization from what the art subculture is because if you haven’t crashed the codes, and if you don’t know what it is, you feel it’s a conspiracy against your unintelligence. You feel it’s fraud.”

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Author:Barbara Kruger

“I don’t work as a conceptualist. Let’s say the conceptual art model is that you have a project idea, or a set of concerns, and then you illustrate those concerns in whatever manner you see appropriate. For me, it has always been that the world suggests far more subtle and interesting variations than I could ever come up with.”

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Author:John Gossage

“Conceptual art, for me, means work in which the idea is paramount and the material form is secondary, lightweight, ephemeral, cheap, unpretentious and/or ‘dematerialized’”

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Book:Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972 ...

Source: Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972 ...

“I'm not saying Sonic Youth was a conceptual-art project for me, but in a way it was an extension of Warhol. Instead of making criticism about popular culture, as a lot of artists do, I worked within it to do something.”

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Author:Kim Gordon

“Im not trying to do conceptual art.”

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Author:Peter Sotos

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