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
Bruce Nauman quotes about
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.
artist world helping
The true artist helps the world by revealing mystic truths.
art integrity done
In art, the only one who really knows whether what you've done is honest is the artist.
art school certain
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.
art doe should
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.
american-sculptor amount artists certain gave shot uncommon
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.
wall sitting left
Pete and Repeat were sitting on a wall. Pete fell off. Who was left? Repeat.
beautiful successful thinking
I'm surprised when the work appears beautiful, and very pleased. And I think work can be very good and very successful without being able to call it beautiful, although I'm not clear about that. The work is good when it has a certain completeness, and when it's got a certain completeness, then it's beautiful.
motivation stills factors
One of the factors that still keeps me in the studio is that every so often I have to more or less start all over.
interesting asking-the-right-questions you-choose
And then what makes the work interesting is if you choose the right questions.
running swim lap
But if you can find that spot - I suppose it's like running - I used to be a swimmer and swim laps, and you just have to be there with what you're doing.