Conceptual Quotes

Conceptual Quote of the day

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

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’

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Conceptual art is only good if the idea is good.

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.

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

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

Im not trying to do conceptual art.

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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If you don't believe in God, then the God concept is a great placeholder for everything we don't know, which is exponentially more than we do know.

My heartfelt appreciation goes out to Jan Zwicky, Don McKay, John Barton, Barry Dempster, Carolyn Forché and Elizabeth Philips for their masterful eyes and minds.

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