Talent is cheap, you have to be possessed or obsessed, rather. You really have to feel like you cannot not do art, and that is something you can't wi…

- John Baldessari

Well, why is this art? Why isn't that art?

- John Baldessari

I will not make anymore boring art.

- John Baldessari

Look at the subject as if you have never seen it before. Examine it from every side. Draw its outline with your eyes or in the air with your hands, a…

- John Baldessari

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

- John Baldessari

If I saw the art around me that I liked, then I wouldn't do art.

- John Baldessari

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.

- John Baldessari

I think art, if it's meaningful at all, is a conversation with other artists. You say something, they say something, you move back and forth.

- John Baldessari

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

- John Baldessari