Art Quote by John Baldessari Download Open image “Well, why is this art? Why isn't that art?” — John Baldessari ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Inspirational Love Wells
Since the beginning of the 20th century, the public's relationship to art has been weakened by a profound institutional reluctance to address the question… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Perhaps it's art; but if it isn't, at least it's something else equally interesting to me! — George Rickey Copy Share Image
It's human desire to be understood. And we always feel we're not understood. — John Baldessari Copy Share Image
Talent is cheap, you have to be possessed or obsessed, rather. You really have to feel like you cannot not do art, and that… — John Baldessari Copy Share Image
The idea of vaudeville clowns and court jesters is always to show the flaw, to point out what's not working and why it's not… — John Baldessari Copy Share Image
Probably one of the worst things that happened to photography is that cameras have viewfinders. — John Baldessari Copy Share Image
I think I live such a boring life. But I can't imagine any other kind of life, so I guess it's the life I… — John Baldessari Copy Share Image
I was teaching live drawing in a community college and students started zoning in on the face and spending a couple of hours on… — John Baldessari Copy Share Image
Ideally I would like the work to be a hybrid between painting and photography. — John Baldessari Copy Share Image
Most of my friends are women. I think women are more interesting to talk to. — John Baldessari Copy Share Image
The idea was to take fine art and put it into the location of the movie scripts. The script itself is collage - some… — John Baldessari Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
