Conceptual Art Quotes

17 quotes by 14 authors

In conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work — Sol LeWitt
I'm not anti conceptual art. I don't think painting must be revived, exactly. Art reflects life, and our lives are full of algorithms, so a… — Jenny Saville
In fact I always disliked conceptual art, because my work is about anarchistic humor. — Dan Graham
I remember going into galleries and seeing this thing called conceptual art, and I understand people's marginalization from what the art subculture is because if… — Barbara Kruger
Conceptual art, for me, means work in which the idea is paramount and the material form is secondary, lightweight, ephemeral, cheap, unpretentious and/or â€˜dematerializedâ€™ — Lucy R. Lippard
I'm not saying Sonic Youth was a conceptual-art project for me, but in a way it was an extension of Warhol. Instead of making criticism… — Kim Gordon
Im not trying to do conceptual art. — Peter Sotos
Conceptual art' is an oxymoron. Concepts are articulations of fact or supposition, not attributes of quality. — Walter Darby Bannard
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
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
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
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
After a few months in my parents' basement, I took an apartment near the state university, where I discovered both crystal methamphetamine and conceptual art.… — David Sedaris
I am particularly interested in creating a relationship between ideas of reception in conceptual art and theater. — Tim Crouch
I thought conceptual art was a joke. — Gian Carlo Menotti

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