Art Quote by Brian Christian

Conceptual art is entirely word-bound. It is, in fact, the kind of art that is exhausted in its verbal description.

— Alexander Stoddart

In art, as long as you have ideas and think, you are bound to deform nature. Art is deformation.

— Fernando Botero

Conceptual art is only good if the idea is good.

— Sol LeWitt

Conceptual art, for me, means work in which the idea is paramount and the material form is secondary, lightweight, ephemeral, cheap, unpretentious and/or ‘dematerialized’

— Lucy R. Lippard

Conceptual art, I don't even know what that is.

— Watkin Tudor Jones

I'm not knocking conceptual art; it's another department, but it doesn't move me like painting.

— Paul Simonon

Art is making something better without knowing what better is until you make it.

— Walter Darby Bannard

Even if virtually anything can be art, there are levels of quality.

— Thomas Hoving

I thought conceptual art was a joke.

— Gian Carlo Menotti

Conceptual art' is an oxymoron. Concepts are articulations of fact or supposition, not attributes of quality.

— Walter Darby Bannard

I think the term 'conceptual art' is a useful term for writers, a basket to put people in, like Pop Art or Impressionism or…

— John Baldessari

The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe