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
beautiful successful thinking
I'm surprised when the work appears beautiful, and very pleased. And I think work can be very good and very successful without being able to call it beautiful, although I'm not clear about that. The work is good when it has a certain completeness, and when it's got a certain completeness, then it's beautiful.
people capacity aspect
My work is basically an outgrowth of the anger I feel about the human condition. The aspects of it that make me angry are our capacity for cruelty and the ability people have to ignore situations they don't like.
art integrity done
In art, the only one who really knows whether what you've done is honest is the artist.
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.
artist world helping
The true artist helps the world by revealing mystic truths.
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.
gone done sometimes
Did you stop because it was good enough, or could have done more - but then maybe ruined it too? Sometimes you finish because you've gone too far.
ideas video unusual
My videos always involve some idea of a human being in a unusual situation-and what happens.