Art Quote by Henry Flynt

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

— Walter Darby Bannard

The purpose of concept art as a genre is to unbrainwash our mathematical and logical faculties.

— Henry Flynt

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

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

— Alexander Stoddart

In conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work

— Sol LeWitt

Art is not there simply to be understood. ... It is more the sense of an indication or suggestion.

— Joseph Beuys

Art is a language, an instrument of knowledge, an instrument of communication.

— Jean Dubuffet

Concepts are mental images.

— Paul Virilio

All paintings start with concept, which is another word for image or imagination. The mistake is to isolate the concept as if the idea…

— Joseph Plaskett

Art is a form of understanding like philosophy and science and mathematics are an understanding but the difference is that art has the capacity…

— Robert Longo

For me, art is such a wide concept - anything can be art.

— Sebastiao Salgado