Art Quote by Robert Barry

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, I don't even know what that is.

— Watkin Tudor Jones

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

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

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

— Walter Darby Bannard

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

— Joseph Kosuth

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

I thought conceptual art was a joke.

— Gian Carlo Menotti

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

— Sol LeWitt

I would like to try to understand what is. We know very little, and I am trying to do it by creating analogies. Almost…

— Gerhard Richter

Conceptual art is only good if the idea is good.

— Sol LeWitt