Like the people that in the 60s or 70s claimed the "end of painting" - all they did was open up a whole new branch for painting. Happily, it doesn't work. It's not a reason for art. Closing something out is not a reason for something to exist.
Art that imposes conditions - human or otherwise - on the receiver for its appreciation in my eyes constitutes aesthetic fascism. - Lawrence Weiner
Art that imposes conditions - human or otherwise - on the receiver for its appreciation in my eyes constitutes aesthetic fascism.
- Lawrence Weiner
In my work, it's simultaneously realities, instead of parallel. Simultaneous avoids the problem of alternate reality. In parallel reality, there's al… - Lawrence Weiner
In my work, it's simultaneously realities, instead of parallel. Simultaneous avoids the problem of alternate reality. In parallel reality, there's al…
Once you know about a work of mine you own it. There's no way I can climb inside somebody's head and remove it. - Lawrence Weiner
Once you know about a work of mine you own it. There's no way I can climb inside somebody's head and remove it.
All art is made from anger. - Lawrence Weiner
All art is made from anger.
I'm keeping everything on a human level, but essentially everything in our lives has to be on a human level. Any specification of something by art hi… - Lawrence Weiner
I'm keeping everything on a human level, but essentially everything in our lives has to be on a human level. Any specification of something by art hi…
People, buying my stuff, can take it wherever they go and can rebuild it if they choose. If they keep it in their heads, that's fine too. They don't … - Lawrence Weiner
People, buying my stuff, can take it wherever they go and can rebuild it if they choose. If they keep it in their heads, that's fine too. They don't …
In my eyes, making art is very often about something that you don't know. - Lawrence Weiner
In my eyes, making art is very often about something that you don't know.
Accreditation. The "doctorate of fine art." I've never heard something so stupid in my entire life. - Lawrence Weiner
Accreditation. The "doctorate of fine art." I've never heard something so stupid in my entire life.
Skills come with age, but wisdom, I doubt it very, very much. - Lawrence Weiner
Skills come with age, but wisdom, I doubt it very, very much.
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