Quotes About Conceptual

He does not define concepts, he does not analyse them, he does not criticize them: he murders them (but the crime is never perfect).

I work on fittings, mostly. You know, I sketch less and less in my work. I sketch for the show sometimes, but then it becomes more conceptual. But when I don't sketch, it becomes more pragmatic.

I have always thought that the photographer does artistic work and that art consists of working with fictional premises.

I've come up through art school, through painting, through graphic design, through advertising, through TV commercials and music video. I've designed books, built billboards, matchbooks, corporate identities. I continuously paint, I've done conceptual art pictures.

True compassion is undirected & holds no conceptual focus. That kind of genuine, true compassion is only possible after realizing emptiness.

It can be so empowering for us to understand, even on a conceptual level, that we are enlightened in our true nature.

The most important lesson I received from Conceptual art consisted in the recording of simple and obvious things, and viewing them under a whole new light.

Art's supposed to build logic structures.

All our knowledge is symbolic.

Conceptual art is only good if the idea is good.

I make no apology for preoccupying myself with architecture, television, conceptual art, restaurants and Jane Asher's cakes.

I wanted not to make photographs that would be art, but art that would be photography.

I wanted to kill art for myself.. ..a new thought for that object.

I think the term 'conceptual art' is a useful term for writers, a basket to put people in, like Pop Art or Impressionism or whatever.

Duchamp is known for calling a thing art, rather than making it. A lot of that is picked up in pop art, too.

Im not trying to do conceptual art.

I always thought there was a - even in the most, quote, "conceptual art," there is always a physical aspect to it. I never knew what the term meant.

It became like a symbolic thing, to be "an artist." After Duchamp, I realized that being an artist is more about a lifestyle and attitude than producing some product.

that traversing an infinite number of dimensionless mathematical points is not obviously paradoxical in the way that traversing an infinite number of physical-space points is.

To share out your soul freely, that is what metanoia (a change of mind, or repentance)really refers to: a mental product of love. A change of mind, or love for the undemonstrable. And you throw off every conceptual cloak of self-defense, you give up the fleshly resistance of your ego. Repentance has nothing to do with self-regarding sorrow for legal transgressions. It is an ecstatic erotic self-emptying. A change of mind about the mode of thinking and being.

The more minimal the art, the more maximum the explanation.

In the particular dwells the tawdry. In the conceptual dwells the grand, the transcendent, the everlasting.

In the particular dwells the tawdry. In the conceptual dwells the grand, the transcendent, the everlasting. Earthly countries and single malignant boys can go to hell; the idea of countries and the idea of sons triumph for eternity.

I've always thought abstractly - through theme and variations rather than narrative.