Conceptual art Quotes

Traditional conceptual art is very dry.

— Cornelia Parker

“Breakthrough artists always expand the very concept of freedom.”

— Talismanist Giebra

Conceptual art, I don't even know what that is.

— Watkin Tudor Jones

Im not trying to do conceptual art.

— Peter Sotos

I love conceptual art and artistic expression.

— Maria Brink

I thought conceptual art was a joke.

— Gian Carlo Menotti

Conceptual art is only good if the idea is good.

— Sol LeWitt

I'm not trying to do conceptual art.

— Peter Sotos

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

— Will Self

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

— Kehinde Wiley

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

— Dan Graham

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

— Sol LeWitt

David is purely a conceptual artist. He didn't play any instruments or paint or anything. We were painters.

— Tina Weymouth

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

— Sol LeWitt

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

— Walter Darby Bannard

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

— Sol LeWitt

Even though people think I am more of a conceptual artist, I am actually very intuitive. For me, it is still a…

— Cornelia Parker

I spent a lot of time on my own working out the physical vocabulary for how Gollum moved. As I say, I…

— Andy Serkis

The conceptual artist Ai WeiWei illustrates the schizoid society that rapid change has produced - sometimes by reassembling Ming-style furniture into absurd…

— Arne Glimcher

It's the ultimate conceptual artwork. I took a piece of metal and just painted an image of a stop sign on it…

— Josh Smith

It would be obvious for me to do conceptual art, and I think I've done it already with smashing bass guitars and…

— Paul Simonon

I'm not saying Sonic Youth was a conceptual-art project for me, but in a way it was an extension of Warhol. Instead…

— Kim Gordon

I always thought there was a - even in the most, quote, "conceptual art," there is always a physical aspect to it.…

— Robert Barry

I have never understood, for instance, why some people see contemporary art as divided between 'painting' and 'conceptual art', as though this…

— Michael Craig-Martin

I am good in the fact that most of my reviews have been very positive really. I get pretty good reviews. There…

— Robert Barry

I don’t work as a conceptualist. Let’s say the conceptual art model is that you have a project idea, or a set…

— John Gossage

“It true, Bigfoot career been in hole lately. Bigfoot mania of the ‘70’s and ‘80’s but distant memory. I famous for ability…

— Graham Roumieu

I didn't want to be criticized for taking low-quality photographs, so I tried to reach the best, highest quality of photography and…

— Hiroshi Sugimoto

So much of the hubris that surrounded conceptual art in the 1950s through '70s was that it had this arrogant presupposition that…

— Kehinde Wiley

Not only were the minds of artists formed by the university; in the same mold were formed those of the art historians,…

— Harold Rosenberg

“Art then becomes a safety valve for the expression of individual and collective neuroses originating in the inability of coping with the…

— Luis Camnitzer

I'm not anti conceptual art. I don't think painting must be revived, exactly. Art reflects life, and our lives are full of…

— Jenny Saville

“In Taiwan during the 1960s and mainland China in the 1980s, conceptualism played a role similar to that of Dada, that is,…

— Gao Minglu

I am not really interested in clothing as a conceptual art form.

— Issey Miyake

The idea becomes a machine that makes the art.

— Sol LeWitt

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

— Brian Christian

I have been known as the minimal and conceptual artist for over five decades. I think I haven't changed much.

— Yoko Ono

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

— Tim Crouch

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

— Alexander Stoddart

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

— William H. Gass