Conceptual Art Quotes
17 quotes by 14 authors
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In conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work
— Sol LeWitt
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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
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In fact I always disliked conceptual art, because my work is about anarchistic humor.
— Dan Graham
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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
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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
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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
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Im not trying to do conceptual art.
— Peter Sotos
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Conceptual art' is an oxymoron. Concepts are articulations of fact or supposition, not attributes of quality.
— Walter Darby Bannard
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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
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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
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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
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Conceptual art became the liberating idea that gave the art of the next 40 years its real impetus.
— Sol LeWitt
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The other great development has been in photography, but that too was influenced by Conceptual art.
— Sol LeWitt
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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
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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
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I am particularly interested in creating a relationship between ideas of reception in conceptual art and theater.
— Tim Crouch
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I thought conceptual art was a joke.
— Gian Carlo Menotti
Who Wrote These Conceptual Art Quotes
14 authors contributed a total of 17 Conceptual Art Quotes as follows: