Accepting Quote by Lawrence Weiner

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

— Alexander Stoddart

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

Art is the microscope of the mind, which sharpens the wit as the other does the sight; and converts every object into a little…

— William Hazlitt

“Art is a concretization of metaphysics. Art brings man’s concepts to the perceptual level of his consciousness and allows him to grasp them directly,…

— Ayn Rand, The Romatic Manifesto

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

— Joseph Beuys

Nature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the human mind, that see art.

— Man Ray

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

— Joseph Kosuth

What art makes us see, and therefore gives to us in the form of 'seeing', 'perceiving' and 'feeling' (which is not the form of…

— Louis Althusser

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, I don't even know what that is.

— Watkin Tudor Jones

As we grow older, we realize just how limiting were our earlier conceptions. Art is something else. Art is fluid, transmutable, open-ended, never complete,…

— Robert Genn