Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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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.

John Baldessari's Popular Quotes

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…

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

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

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

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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…

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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.

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

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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.

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I will not make anymore boring art.

- John Baldessari