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> [Most of my work comes from ideas. I can usually do only a few versions of each idea. Land Art and Body Art were particularly strong concepts which allowed for a lot of permutations. But nevertheless, I found myself wanting…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dennis-oppenheim/most-of-my-work-comes-from-ideas-i-can-usually-do-only-a-few-versions/)

[Dennis Oppenheim](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dennis-oppenheim/)

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## More by Dennis Oppenheim

> [An artist works through exposed wounds.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dennis-oppenheim/an-artist-works-through-exposed-wounds/)

[Dennis Oppenheim](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dennis-oppenheim/)

> [You can't understand how strange it was to be a sculptor who exhibited photographs. (On exhibitions of his earthworks and land art pieces.)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dennis-oppenheim/you-can-t-understand-how-strange-it-was-to-be-a-sculptor-who/)

[Dennis Oppenheim](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dennis-oppenheim/)

> [Turning something upside-down elicits a reversal of content and pointing a steeple into the ground directs it to hell as opposed to heaven.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dennis-oppenheim/turning-something-upside-down-elicits-a-reversal-of-content-and/)

[Dennis Oppenheim](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dennis-oppenheim/)

> [Most of my work comes from ideas. I can usually do only a few versions of each idea. Land Art and Body Art were…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dennis-oppenheim/most-of-my-work-comes-from-ideas-i-can-usually-do-only-a-few-versions/)

[Dennis Oppenheim](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dennis-oppenheim/)

> [Make things that carry with them the residue of where they have been.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dennis-oppenheim/make-things-that-carry-with-them-the-residue-of-where-they-have-been/)

[Dennis Oppenheim](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dennis-oppenheim/)

> [The photograph gives constant reference to the rectangle. This forces any idea into the confines of pictorial illusionism.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dennis-oppenheim/the-photograph-gives-constant-reference-to-the-rectangle-this-forces/)

[Dennis Oppenheim](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dennis-oppenheim/)

> [ \[The photographs\] were there simply to indicate a radical art that had already vanished. The photograph was necessary only as a residue for communication. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dennis-oppenheim/the-photographs-were-there-simply-to-indicate-a-radical-art-that-had/)

[Dennis Oppenheim](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dennis-oppenheim/)

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