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
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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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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The idea being there so that it became almost like an object that was there, that you could go back and visit whenever you wanted to.
I've always been interested in what happens in the studio.