"I didn't know anything about conceptual art when……" — David Salle
"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 happening elsewhere, so I took a holiday from painting for a few years."
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14 Quotes by David Salle
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Being in love is dangerous because you talk yourself into thinking you've never had it so good.
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Ever since I started painting, I have tried to get the fluidity and surprise of image connection, the simultaneity of…
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I started when I was nine. Really, everything I know about color theory, composition, drawing, and painting, I learned when…
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My father had wanted to be a commercial artist. He got as far as being a photographer in the army…
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I did all the stuff that people do - film, performance, photography, pictures and words, words and pictures. In retrospect,…
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I'm happiest when I feel that several almost opposing sensations are present at the same time.
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I remember making a videotape in a fancy hair salon in Beverly Hills. The soundtrack in the salon had a…
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As a young person, you have no fixed address, no studio, no money for materials, so I made things sort…
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My focus was always toward imagery of some sort.
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Since I moved six or seven times the first year I was in New York, I had to be able…
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Truth is, I didn't know what the hell I was doing when I got out of Cal Arts. I think…
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It sounds formulaic now, but at the time, I was interested in the difference between the thing and the representation…
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