Photography Quotes by John Baldessari

It's human desire to be understood. And we always feel we're not understood.

— John Baldessari

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

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

I will not make anymore boring art.

— John Baldessari

Writing helped me understand what I was thinking about.

— John Baldessari

Probably one of the worst things that happened to photography is that cameras have viewfinders.

— John Baldessari

There's no such thing as a bad photograph.

— John Baldessari

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

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

Ideally I would like the work to be a hybrid between painting and photography.

— John Baldessari

Most of my friends are women. I think women are more interesting to talk to.

— John Baldessari

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

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

— John Baldessari

I could never figure out why photography and art had separate histories. So I decided to explore both.

— John Baldessari

I go back and forth between wanting to be abundantly simple and maddeningly complex.

— John Baldessari