Artist Quotes by John Baldessari

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

— John Baldessari

I will not make anymore boring art.

— John Baldessari

Artists are better at finding a way to kill their time.

— John Baldessari

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

— John Baldessari

That should be the goal for all art, to be as simple as a flashcard.

— John Baldessari

I think the term 'conceptual art' is a useful term for writers, a basket to put people in, like Pop Art or…

— John Baldessari

When I went to art school, I was just having fun. I realised that was the last chance I had, and then…

— John Baldessari

Look at the subject as if you have never seen it before. Examine it from every side. Draw its outline with your…

— John Baldessari

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

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

I was always interested in language. I thought, why not? If a painting, by the normal definition of the term, is paint…

— John Baldessari

Talent is cheap, you have to be possessed or obsessed, rather. You really have to feel like you cannot not do art,…

— John Baldessari

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

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

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