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
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.
excuse-you want no-excuses
If you really want to do it, you do it. There are no excuses.
amateur american-sculptor
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.
hands interesting worry
I want to be in the studio. I want to be doing something. You just do whatever is at hand, and you don't even worry about whether it's going to be interesting or not interesting to anybody else-or even yourself. You just have to make something.
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.
heart listen-to-your-heart
I'll talk. You'll listen.
ideas video unusual
My videos always involve some idea of a human being in a unusual situation-and what happens.
wall sitting left
Pete and Repeat were sitting on a wall. Pete fell off. Who was left? Repeat.
art art-is concerned
What I am really concerned about is what art is supposed to be - and can become.
sometimes projects turns
And sometimes the question that you pose or the project that you start yourself turns into something else, you know, but at least it gets you started.
anger frustration finished
Generalised anger and frustration is something that gets you in the studio, and gets you to work - though it's not necessarily evident in anything that's finished.
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.