I guess I get bored easily, and thank God. I don't want to all my life pound only the same key, although some artists do it very effectively. I'm not trying to denigrate anybody. — 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
