Joseph Kosuth

Seeing is not as simple as looking.

— Joseph Kosuth

Anything can be art. Art is the relations between relations, not the relations between objects.

— Joseph Kosuth

That celebrated marriage of science and art, photography, seemed at the time to join together how we look at the world, art,…

— Joseph Kosuth

Forget your ideas about art. Make a shopping list of everything you like about what you've done. Include qualities that you've seen…

— Joseph Kosuth

I am only describing language, not explaining anything.

— Joseph Kosuth

I liked that the work itself was something other than simply what you saw It meant you could have an art work…

— Joseph Kosuth

Making something new to look at is a futile and empty act if its only audience is the eyes.

— Joseph Kosuth

Unlike the marks of a painting, the photo seems to organize its 'opinions' in relation to the world; even when the photographs…

— Joseph Kosuth

When objects are presented within the context of art (and until recently objects always have been used) they are as eligible for…

— Joseph Kosuth

Photography, as an invention, was both art and science. The view it gave us of the world was in some measure acceptable…

— Joseph Kosuth

“The 'value' of particular artists after Duchamp can be weighed according to how much they questioned the nature of art.”

— Joseph Kosuth

All art (after Duchamp) is conceptual (in nature) because art only exists conceptually.

— Joseph Kosuth

Change art to include yourself.

— Joseph Kosuth