Art Quote by Michael Craig-Martin

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

What art is not processed? "Conceptual art." Somebody making a painting has to conceive of the size. I don't understand where these words came…

— Lawrence Weiner

Great art - or good art - is when you look at it, experience it and it stays in your mind. I don't think…

— Damien Hirst

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

All of the significant art of today stems from Conceptual art. This includes the art of installation, political, feminist and socially directed art.

— Sol LeWitt

We are concerned with the relationship between art and life. Contemporary art is only intelligible in terms of its relationship to our life.

— David Elliott

Art is anything people do with distinction.

— Louis Dudek

Art is when we do work that matters in a creative way, in a way that touches (people) and changes them for the better.

— Seth Godin

If Art relates itself to an Object, it becomes descriptive, divisionist, literary.

— Robert Delaunay

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

What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals,…

— Michel Foucault

We need to remind ourselves that contemporary art is first of all a form of conceptual gymnastics, in which we learn to coexist with…

— Massimiliano Gioni