Quotes about Conceptual Art

I'm not trying to do conceptual art. Votes: 2

I thought conceptual art was a joke. Votes: 2

I'm not knocking conceptual art; it's another department, but it doesn't move me like painting. Votes: 2

The other great development has been in photography, but that too was influenced by Conceptual art. Votes: 2

Conceptual art became the liberating idea that gave the art of the next 40 years its real impetus. Votes: 2

I am particularly interested in creating a relationship between ideas of reception in conceptual art and theater. Votes: 2

All of the significant art of today stems from Conceptual art. This includes the art of installation, political, feminist and socially directed art. Votes: 2

It would be obvious for me to do conceptual art, and I think I've done it already with smashing bass guitars and whatever - I consider that as conceptual. Votes: 2

Great art - or good art - is when you look at it, experience it and it stays in your mind. I don't think conceptual art and traditional art are all that different. Votes: 2

I've come up through art school, through painting, through graphic design, through advertising, through TV commercials and music video. I've designed books, built billboards, matchbooks, corporate identities. I continuously paint, I've done conceptual art pictures. Votes: 2

After a few months in my parents' basement, I took an apartment near the state university, where I discovered both crystal methamphetamine and conceptual art. Either one of these things are dangerous, but in combination they have the potential to destroy entire civilizations. Votes: 2

When I go to galleries in New York, I feel like I'm in school. I know that there's good contemporary conceptual art, but I have a really hard time caring about it. I'd rather look at images of people and things I can relate to. Then again, I didn't go to art school. Votes: 2

Im not trying to do conceptual art. Votes: 0

Conceptual art is only good if the idea is good. Votes: 0

All art (after Duchamp) is conceptual (in nature) because art only exists conceptually. Votes: 0

In fact I always disliked conceptual art, because my work is about anarchistic humor. Votes: 0

In conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work Votes: 0

Conceptual art' is an oxymoron. Concepts are articulations of fact or supposition, not attributes of quality. Votes: 0

Conceptual art might be, for better or worse, (definable as) the art most susceptible to lossy compression. Votes: 0

I make no apology for preoccupying myself with architecture, television, conceptual art, restaurants and Jane Asher's cakes. Votes: 0

Conceptual art is entirely word-bound. It is, in fact, the kind of art that is exhausted in its verbal description. Votes: 0

John Baldessari, the 79-year-old conceptualist, has spent more than four decades making laconic, ironic conceptual art-about-art, both good and bad. Votes: 0

Philosophy has a great sort of appeal in terms of an artistic or aesthetic organization of concepts. It's a conceptual art. Votes: 0

One of my most strong memories was studying with Mel Bochner, one of the, I think, high water marks of American conceptual art. Votes: 0

I think the term 'conceptual art' is a useful term for writers, a basket to put people in, like Pop Art or Impressionism or whatever. Votes: 0

The most important lesson I received from Conceptual art consisted in the recording of simple and obvious things, and viewing them under a whole new light. Votes: 0

I have never understood, for instance, why some people see contemporary art as divided between 'painting' and 'conceptual art', as though this represented a genuine division. Votes: 0

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’ Votes: 0

We need to remind ourselves that contemporary art is first of all a form of conceptual gymnastics, in which we learn to coexist with what we don't understand. Votes: 0

The idea of making [conceptual] art was not a good way to approach things... Instead I saw myself as trying to make something that my relatives could understand. Votes: 0

I always thought there was a - even in the most, quote, "conceptual art," there is always a physical aspect to it. I never knew what the term meant. Votes: 0