John Baldessari Quotes

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• Look at the subject as if you have never seen it before. Examine it from every side. Draw its outline with your eyes or in…
• If I saw the art around me that I liked, then I wouldn't do art.
• A TWO-DIMENSIONAL SURFACE WITHOUT ANY ARTICULATION IS A DEAD EXPERIENCE
• Well, why is this art? Why isn't that art?
• Probably one of the worst things that happened to photography is that cameras have viewfinders.
• 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…
• Writing helped me understand what I was thinking about.
• I was getting tired of hearing the complaint, 'My kid could do this,' and 'We don’t get it. What’s modern art? Blah, blah, blah.' And…
• Artists are better at finding a way to kill their time.
• Talent is cheap, you have to be possessed or obsessed, rather. You really have to feel like you cannot not do art, and that is…
• I could never figure out why photography and art had separate histories. So I decided to explore both.
• I go back and forth between wanting to be abundantly simple and maddeningly complex.
• When I went to art school, I was just having fun. I realised that was the last chance I had, and then I would have…

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