Dennis Oppenheim Quotes

An artist works through exposed wounds.

Make things that carry with them the residue of where they have been.

[The photographs] were there simply to indicate a radical art that had already vanished. The photograph was necessary only as a residue for communication.

Turning something upside-down elicits a reversal of content and pointing a steeple into the ground directs it to hell as opposed to heaven.

The photograph gives constant reference to the rectangle. This forces any idea into the confines of pictorial illusionism.

You can't understand how strange it was to be a sculptor who exhibited photographs. (On exhibitions of his earthworks and land art pieces.)