Conceptual Quotes

156 Conceptual quotes by 123 unique authors

I didn't want to pretend to be a conceptual artist that charges $10,000 for an experience. It's just not what I am. I'm a photographer… — Alec Soth
Unconscious means identified totally with thought. You reduce reality to a conceptual reality. — Eckhart Tolle
Realism and Naturalism rely mostly on the eye of the flesh. Abstract, conceptual and surrealistic art rely mostly on the eye of the mind. Great… — Alex Grey
Our understanding of the world is achieved more effectively by conceptual improvements than by discovery of new facts — Ernst Mayr
The task of understanding is not to replicate in conceptual form something that already exists, but rather to create a wholly new realm, that together… — Rudolf Steiner
Conceptual art' is an oxymoron. Concepts are articulations of fact or supposition, not attributes of quality. — Walter Darby Bannard
The world of enlightenment doesn't know of its own existence. We're beyond both the knower and known. There's no conceptual identity whatsoever. — Frederick Lenz
I didn't know anything about conceptual art when I left Kansas. I went to Cal Arts to be a painter, but the exciting stuff was… — David Salle
Post-Modern space is historically specific, rooted in conventions, unlimited or ambiguous in zoning and irrational or transformational in its relation of parts to whole……. …skew… — Charles Jencks
However, in modern conceptual frameworks there is a more sophisticated view. I would say that the act of music exists in several worlds simultaneously. — Robert Fripp
Great art - or good art - is when you look at it, experience it and it stays in your mind. I don't think conceptual… — Damien Hirst
'Pure experience' is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories. — William James
All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
All of the significant art of today stems from Conceptual art. This includes the art of installation, political, feminist and socially directed art. — Sol LeWitt
Conceptual art became the liberating idea that gave the art of the next 40 years its real impetus. — Sol LeWitt
The other great development has been in photography, but that too was influenced by Conceptual art. — Sol LeWitt
I'm a very conceptual writer. — Macklemore
Israel produces more conceptual products than any other country. — Benjamin Netanyahu
I have been known as the minimal and conceptual artist for over five decades. I think I haven't changed much. — Yoko Ono
Cognitive psychology has shown that the mind best understands facts when they are woven into a conceptual fabric, such as a narrative, mental map, or… — Steven Pinker
People, and especially theologians, should try to familiarize themselves with scientific ideas. Of course, science is technical in many respects, but there are some very… — John Polkinghorne
John Baldessari, the 79-year-old conceptualist, has spent more than four decades making laconic, ironic conceptual art-about-art, both good and bad. — Jerry Saltz
In some ways Lawler is a conceptual Diane Arbus. She's a stalker who takes advantage of situations. She pulls back curtains, causing normal things to… — Jerry Saltz
The artist himself is actually the subject in everything after, say, 1900. Eventually, art becomes so removed from the community that you have to know… — Gus Van Sant
Whatever your supposed politics are - left, right - if you put it in a human connection, most people will rise to the occasion and… — George Saunders

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