Most of my work comes from ideas. I can usually do only a few versions of each idea. Land Art and Body Art were particularly strong concepts which al…

- Dennis Oppenheim

[The photographs] were there simply to indicate a radical art that had already vanished. The photograph was necessary only as a residue for communica…

- Dennis Oppenheim

The photograph gives constant reference to the rectangle. This forces any idea into the confines of pictorial illusionism.

- Dennis Oppenheim

You can't understand how strange it was to be a sculptor who exhibited photographs. (On exhibitions of his earthworks and land art pieces.)

- Dennis Oppenheim

Turning something upside-down elicits a reversal of content and pointing a steeple into the ground directs it to hell as opposed to heaven.

- Dennis Oppenheim

Make things that carry with them the residue of where they have been.

- Dennis Oppenheim

An artist works through exposed wounds.

- Dennis Oppenheim