Art Quote by 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

I always thought there was a - even in the most, quote, "conceptual art," there is always a physical aspect to it. I never…

— Robert Barry

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

— Walter Darby Bannard

Conceptual art, I don't even know what that is.

— Watkin Tudor Jones

And when you see artists like Donald Judd and so forth being referred to as conceptual, what the hell does that mean? It's a…

— Robert Barry

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

— Alexander Stoddart

When an artist uses a conceptual form of art, it means that all of the planning and decisions are made beforehand and the execution…

— Sol LeWitt

The idea of making [conceptual] art was not a good way to approach things... Instead I saw myself as trying to make something that…

— Sandy Skoglund

All art (after Duchamp) is conceptual (in nature) because art only exists conceptually.

— Joseph Kosuth

I have never understood, for instance, why some people see contemporary art as divided between 'painting' and 'conceptual art', as though this represented a…

— Michael Craig-Martin

Conceptual art is only good if the idea is good.

— Sol LeWitt

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

— Sol LeWitt