That should be the goal for all art, to be as simple as a flashcard. — John Baldessari Copy Share Image
When I went to art school, I was just having fun. I realised that was the last chance I had, and then… — John Baldessari Copy Share Image
I think the term 'conceptual art' is a useful term for writers, a basket to put people in, like Pop Art or… — John Baldessari Copy Share Image
I was always interested in language. I thought, why not? If a painting, by the normal definition of the term, is paint… — John Baldessari Copy Share Image
I was getting tired of hearing the complaint, 'My kid could do this,' and 'We don’t get it. What’s modern art? Blah,… — John Baldessari Copy Share Image
I can't imagine a life without thinking, doing art. I don't feel any need to be a world traveler or an adventurer.… — John Baldessari Copy Share Image
Talent is cheap, you have to be possessed or obsessed, rather. You really have to feel like you cannot not do art,… — John Baldessari Copy Share Image
A lot of ideas don't translate very well into art. To say, "Oh my god, the grass is green ..." You're going… — John Baldessari Copy Share Image
I think art, if it's meaningful at all, is a conversation with other artists. You say something, they say something, you move… — John Baldessari Copy Share Image
I didn't see painters doing paintings of glassware and glass shelves or sand dunes and receding snow fences. Why does that interest… — John Baldessari Copy Share Image
Look at the subject as if you have never seen it before. Examine it from every side. Draw its outline with your… — John Baldessari Copy Share Image
It's human desire to be understood. And we always feel we're not understood. — John Baldessari Copy Share
Talent is cheap, you have to be possessed or obsessed, rather. You really have to feel like you cannot not do art, and that… — John Baldessari Copy Share
The idea of vaudeville clowns and court jesters is always to show the flaw, to point out what's not working and why it's not… — John Baldessari Copy Share
Probably one of the worst things that happened to photography is that cameras have viewfinders. — John Baldessari Copy Share
I think I live such a boring life. But I can't imagine any other kind of life, so I guess it's the life I… — John Baldessari Copy Share
I was teaching live drawing in a community college and students started zoning in on the face and spending a couple of hours on… — John Baldessari Copy Share
Ideally I would like the work to be a hybrid between painting and photography. — John Baldessari Copy Share
Most of my friends are women. I think women are more interesting to talk to. — John Baldessari Copy Share
The idea was to take fine art and put it into the location of the movie scripts. The script itself is collage - some… — John Baldessari Copy Share
I could never figure out why photography and art had separate histories. So I decided to explore both. — John Baldessari Copy Share
I go back and forth between wanting to be abundantly simple and maddeningly complex. — John Baldessari Copy Share
