What I try to do is reinvigorate strategies and clichés I find in Hollywood movies. At a certain point I had these huge folders, each one classified according to subject matter or genre: people with guns, people kissing, Indians and… — 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 that and then putting the rest of the body on the face only in the last hour. It didn't work to just tell them, 'Well, you're really not thinking of the body as a totality.' So… — John Baldessari Copy Share
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 of the lines come from actual movies and I've written others to make the text work with the found image. In this way, the details of old dead guys' paintings (from the collection of the Städel… — John Baldessari Copy Share
