Approach Quote by Sandy Skoglund

Conceptual art is only good if the idea is good.

— Sol LeWitt

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

I thought conceptual art was a joke.

— Gian Carlo Menotti

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

— Walter Darby Bannard

I don’t work as a conceptualist. Let’s say the conceptual art model is that you have a project idea, or a set of concerns,…

— John Gossage

Conceptual art became the liberating idea that gave the art of the next 40 years its real impetus.

— Sol LeWitt

I'm not trying to do conceptual art.

— Peter Sotos

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

— Alexander Stoddart

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

— Joseph Kosuth

I didn't know anything about conceptual art when I left Kansas. I went to Cal Arts to be a painter, but the exciting stuff…

— David Salle