Quotes from Lawrence Weiner

Accreditation. The "doctorate of fine art." I've never heard something so stupid in my entire life.

Artists try to ask questions, and within our society, unless there are artists, those questions don't get asked. And everybody blames the market.

Skills come with age, but wisdom, I doubt it very, very much.

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.

The only art I'm interested in is the art I don't understand right away. If you understand it right away it really has no use except as nostalgia.

Art that imposes conditions - human or otherwise - on the receiver for its appreciation in my eyes constitutes aesthetic fascism.

Art's supposed to build logic structures.

I only work in relation to what the work is about. Yes, of course, if the world's coming to an end I would basically try to get out of the way when the sky falls.