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John Baldessari Quotes: If you're smart, you abandon the things that didn't work out so well, and you enlarge upon the things that seem to be successful.
         

If you're smart, you abandon the things that didn't work out so well, and you enlarge upon the things that seem to be successful.


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If I saw the art around me that I liked, then I wouldn't do art.

If I saw the art around me that I liked, then I wouldn't do art.



I go back and forth between wanting to be abundantly simple and maddeningly complex.

I go back and forth between wanting to be abundantly simple and maddeningly complex.



I think art, if it's meaningful at all, is a conversation with other artists. You say something, they say something, you move back and forth.

I think art, if it's meaningful at all, is a conversation with other artists. You say something, they say something, you move back and forth.



Talent is cheap, you have to be possessed or obsessed, rather. You really have to feel like you cannot not do art, and that is something you can't will.

Talent is cheap, you have to be possessed or obsessed, rather. You really have to feel like you cannot not do art, and that is something you can't will.



Look at the subject as if you have never seen it before. Examine it from every side. Draw its outline with your eyes or in the air with your hands, and saturate yourself with it.

Look at the subject as if you have never seen it before. Examine it from every side. Draw its outline with your eyes or in the air with your hands, and saturate yourself with it.



I will not make anymore boring art.

I will not make anymore boring art.



A TWO-DIMENSIONAL SURFACE WITHOUT ANY ARTICULATION IS A DEAD EXPERIENCE

A TWO-DIMENSIONAL SURFACE WITHOUT ANY ARTICULATION IS A DEAD EXPERIENCE



I don't try to be funny. It's just that I feel the world is a little bit absurd and off-kilter and I'm sort of reporting.

I don't try to be funny. It's just that I feel the world is a little bit absurd and off-kilter and I'm sort of reporting.



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

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



I was always interested in language. I thought, why not? If a painting, by the normal definition of the term, is paint on canvas, why can't it be painted words on canvas?

I was always interested in language. I thought, why not? If a painting, by the normal definition of the term, is paint on canvas, why can't it be painted words on canvas?





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