I can't imagine a life without thinking, doing art. I don't feel any need to be a world traveler or an adventurer. I'm very happy doing what I'm doing. I think somehow I know that I should have a larger… — John Baldessari Copy Share Image
Find the most puzzling kind of art you can think of, and then go out and try to approximate it with your camera. Take a photograph that corresponds to it. (Assignment to students.) — John Baldessari Copy Share Image
It's human desire to be understood. And we always feel we're not understood. — 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, and that… — John Baldessari Copy Share Image
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 Image
Probably one of the worst things that happened to photography is that cameras have viewfinders. — John Baldessari Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
Ideally I would like the work to be a hybrid between painting and photography. — John Baldessari Copy Share Image
Most of my friends are women. I think women are more interesting to talk to. — John Baldessari Copy Share Image
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 Image
I could never figure out why photography and art had separate histories. So I decided to explore both. — John Baldessari Copy Share Image
I go back and forth between wanting to be abundantly simple and maddeningly complex. — John Baldessari Copy Share Image
