John Baldessari
John Baldessari
John Anthony Baldessariis an American conceptual artist known for his work featuring found photography and appropriated images. He lives and works in Santa Monica and Venice, California...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionArtist
Date of Birth17 June 1931
CountryUnited States of America
two surface articulation
A TWO-DIMENSIONAL SURFACE WITHOUT ANY ARTICULATION IS A DEAD EXPERIENCE
trying littles world
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.
meaningful art moving
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.
art talent like-you
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 will.
simple back-and-forth complexes
I go back and forth between wanting to be abundantly simple and maddeningly complex.
eye hands air
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, and saturate yourself with it.
art saws ifs
If I saw the art around me that I liked, then I wouldn't do art.
art tired kids
I was getting tired of hearing the complaint, 'My kid could do this,' and 'We don’t get it. What’s modern art? Blah, blah, blah.' And I wondered what would really happen if you gave people what they wanted, something they always look at.
art boring
I will not make anymore boring art.
writing thinking
Writing helped me understand what I was thinking about.