Quotes by John Baldessari

John Baldessari

A lot of ideas don’t translate very well into art. To say, “Oh my god, the grass is green …” You’re going to end up with a big green painting.

Art

Green

Ideas

A TWO-DIMENSIONAL SURFACE WITHOUT ANY ARTICULATION IS A DEAD EXPERIENCE

Articulation

Surface

Two

Artists are better at finding a way to kill their time.

Artist

Findings

Way

Find the most puzzling kind of art you can think of, and then go out and try to approximate it with your camera. Take a photograph that corresponds to it. (Assignment to students.)

Art

Thinking

Trying

I always felt like I was right out of Dickens, looking in the window of the Christmas feast, but not at the feast.

Dickens

Felt

Window

I can’t imagine a life without thinking, doing art. I don’t feel any need to be a world traveler or an adventurer. I’m very happy doing what I’m doing. I think somehow I know that I should have a larger vision of art, but I can’t think of what that would be.

Art

Should Have

Thinking

I could never figure out why photography and art had separate histories. So I decided to explore both.

Art

Figures

Photography

I didn’t see painters doing paintings of glassware and glass shelves or sand dunes and receding snow fences. Why does that interest photographers and not artists?

Artist

Glasses

Snow

I don’t try to be funny. It’s just that I feel the world is a little bit absurd and off-kilter and I’m sort of reporting.

Littles

Trying

World

I go back and forth between wanting to be abundantly simple and maddeningly complex.

Back And Forth

Complexes

Simple

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Art

Articulation

Artist

Back And Forth

Boring

Cameras

Complexes

Couple

Definitions

Desire

Dickens

Doctors

Eye

Fall

Feels

Felt

Figures

Findings

Flaws

Glasses

Goal

Green

Hands

Horse

Hybrid

Ideas

Ifs

Illustration

Interesting

Kids

Kind

Kissing

Like You

Littles

Meaningful

Moving

Museums

My Friends

Normal

Painting

People

Photograph

Photography

Produce

Recollection

Saws

Should

Should Have

Sick

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Quotes by John Baldessari

John Baldessari

A lot of ideas don’t translate very well into art. To say, “Oh my god, the grass is green …” You’re going to end up with a big green painting.

A TWO-DIMENSIONAL SURFACE WITHOUT ANY ARTICULATION IS A DEAD EXPERIENCE

Artists are better at finding a way to kill their time.

Find the most puzzling kind of art you can think of, and then go out and try to approximate it with your camera. Take a photograph that corresponds to it. (Assignment to students.)

I always felt like I was right out of Dickens, looking in the window of the Christmas feast, but not at the feast.

I can’t imagine a life without thinking, doing art. I don’t feel any need to be a world traveler or an adventurer. I’m very happy doing what I’m doing. I think somehow I know that I should have a larger vision of art, but I can’t think of what that would be.

I could never figure out why photography and art had separate histories. So I decided to explore both.

I didn’t see painters doing paintings of glassware and glass shelves or sand dunes and receding snow fences. Why does that interest photographers and not artists?

I don’t try to be funny. It’s just that I feel the world is a little bit absurd and off-kilter and I’m sort of reporting.

I go back and forth between wanting to be abundantly simple and maddeningly complex.

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