In my eyes, making art is very often about something that you don't know. — Lawrence Weiner Copy Share Image
You can't have a $2 million painting unless it's on the wall somewhere and somebody saw it. — Lawrence Weiner Copy Share Image
There are people who speculate at objects. I don't think that makes them evil or not evil. It doesn't matter; in order… — Lawrence Weiner Copy Share Image
The only art I'm interested in is the art I don't understand right away. If you understand it right away it really… — Lawrence Weiner Copy Share Image
There is a primacy of each individual object. And we'll see! That's the whole point of making sculpture, to present a question… — Lawrence Weiner Copy Share Image
Now "professional" seems to be whoever you went to school with. It constitutes your nuclear world. And that's the fault of the… — Lawrence Weiner Copy Share Image
I think there should be a reworking of the value structure of art. The value is when the artist makes a first… — Lawrence Weiner Copy Share Image
Art that imposes conditions - human or otherwise - on the receiver for its appreciation in my eyes constitutes aesthetic fascism. — Lawrence Weiner Copy Share Image
I stopped painting, not because I didn't like painting; the sensuality of it was fun. But I wasn't able to get to… — Lawrence Weiner Copy Share Image
Artists try to ask questions, and within our society, unless there are artists, those questions don't get asked. And everybody blames the… — Lawrence Weiner Copy Share Image
Art history is fine. I mean, that's a discipline. Art history is art history, and you start from the beginning and you… — Lawrence Weiner Copy Share Image
There's a radical change in the relationship with the human being and society. Art now is an open conversation with the society.… — Lawrence Weiner Copy Share Image
What art is not processed? "Conceptual art." Somebody making a painting has to conceive of the size. I don't understand where these… — Lawrence Weiner Copy Share Image
As nice as some of the booths are, it's not the same thing. It's a pity for young artists, because one of… — Lawrence Weiner Copy Share Image
Like the people that in the 60s or 70s claimed the "end of painting" - all they did was open up a… — Lawrence Weiner Copy Share Image
I'm not against art fairs, in fact this last one I even made money, but the concept is really disgusting. If you're… — Lawrence Weiner Copy Share Image
There is a discrepancy of somebody going to an art dealer and promising what they'll make for the next three years. And… — Lawrence Weiner Copy Share Image
Think about it: you've already related it down to something that somebody else can understand. If art relates to something - it's… — Lawrence Weiner Copy Share Image
I would imagine, a very large percentage of people who get something for art and they do something else, and they have… — Lawrence Weiner Copy Share Image
What interested me the most was that when I [traveled to Europe] I knew what Joseph Beuys was doing, he knew what… — Lawrence Weiner Copy Share Image
The concept of who your audience is becomes more important than your site. Sometimes you can be commissioned to do a piece… — Lawrence Weiner Copy Share Image
In my eyes, making art is very often about something that you don't know. — Lawrence Weiner Copy Share
I think there should be a reworking of the value structure of art. The value is when the artist makes a first engagement with… — Lawrence Weiner Copy Share
I think it's a waste of time to worry about the motives of why people are supportive of things. I think we should look… — Lawrence Weiner Copy Share
What interested me the most was that when I [traveled to Europe] I knew what Joseph Beuys was doing, he knew what I was… — Lawrence Weiner Copy Share
We were brought up in a world which was based on Aristotle. Science-wise and everything, that's really quite exciting and you learn a lot.… — Lawrence Weiner Copy Share
There is a discrepancy of somebody going to an art dealer and promising what they'll make for the next three years. And I'm old… — Lawrence Weiner Copy Share
I'm not against art fairs, in fact this last one I even made money, but the concept is really disgusting. If you're that rich… — Lawrence Weiner Copy Share
People, buying my stuff, can take it wherever they go and can rebuild it if they choose. If they keep it in their heads,… — Lawrence Weiner Copy Share
The concept of who your audience is becomes more important than your site. Sometimes you can be commissioned to do a piece in Strasburg,… — Lawrence Weiner Copy Share
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… — Lawrence Weiner Copy Share
There is a primacy of each individual object. And we'll see! That's the whole point of making sculpture, to present a question in a… — Lawrence Weiner Copy Share
The art schools seem to be trying to turn people out as "professional." But I don't know what the word "professional" means any longer.… — Lawrence Weiner Copy Share
Genitive is a funny word because it means "from," but it also is the gender in European languages for objects: the masculine, feminine, and… — Lawrence Weiner Copy Share
![“What interested me the most was that when I [traveled to Europe] I knew what Joseph Beuys was doing, he knew what I was doing, and we both, we just started to talk. How did I know what Daniel Buren was doing, and to an extent, he knew exactly what I was doing? How did everybody know? It's an…” quote by Lawrence Weiner](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/de8/lawrence-weiner-17466_artist_what-interested-me-the-most-was-that-whe_152283.jpg)
