Bruce Nauman
Bruce Nauman
Bruce Naumanis an American artist. His practice spans a broad range of media including sculpture, photography, neon, video, drawing, printmaking, and performance. Nauman lives near Galisteo, New Mexico...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMultimedia Artist
Date of Birth6 December 1941
CountryUnited States of America
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I gave a certain amount of thought to how I set up the shot and then after that. That's not an uncommon way for artists to proceed.
artist can-do ifs
And the part about being a professional artist is that you can tell and you can do it over again, even if you can't say how you got there exactly.
art art-is concerned
What I am really concerned about is what art is supposed to be - and can become.
art artist studios
If I was an artist, and I was in the studio, then whatever I was doing in the studio must be art.
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The true artist helps the world by revealing mystic truths.
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In art, the only one who really knows whether what you've done is honest is the artist.
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When I was in art school, I thought art was something I would learn how to do, and then I would just do it. At a certain point I realized that it wasn't going to work like that. Basically, I would have to start over every day and figure out what art was going to be.
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What is it that an artist does when he is left alone in his studio? My conclusion was that if I was an artist and I was in the studio, then everything I was doing in the studio should be art . . . . From that point on, art became more of an activity and less of a product.
teacher artist difficult
A good teacher is like a good artist. They go right to the most difficult part of whatever's going on.
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If you're an amateur artist, you can get it sometimes and not other times and you can't tell and you can't always do it over again.
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In this case we're building a corner to stretch a fence and hang a gate. It had a real purpose in the ranch here. I needed to do this. But at the same time, it made a beautiful structure.
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And so I put down some of the things that he said, about keeping your tools sharpened and not letting them lie on the ground where they get hurt or get abused and dirty and can't find them. And some thoughts about how his father used to do things.
I've always been interested in what happens in the studio.
humor people time
I think humor is used a lot of the time to keep people from getting too close. Humor side-steps and shifts the meaning.