John Baldessari
John Baldessari
John Anthony Baldessariis an American conceptual artist known for his work featuring found photography and appropriated images. He lives and works in Santa Monica and Venice, California...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionArtist
Date of Birth17 June 1931
CountryUnited States of America
although bored denigrate god guess life pound thank trying
I guess I get bored easily, and thank God. I don't want to all my life pound only the same key, although some artists do it very effectively. I'm not trying to denigrate anybody.
bill bit funny sort tries trying
That word 'funny' always makes me feel uncomfortable. Because if I were trying to be funny, I would be something like Bill Wegman - he really tries to be funny. I don't try to be funny. It's just that I feel the world is a little bit absurd and off-kilter, and I'm sort of reporting.
eye hands air
Look at the subject as if you have never seen it before. Examine it from every side. Draw its outline with your eyes or in the air with your hands, and saturate yourself with it.
meaningful art moving
I think art, if it's meaningful at all, is a conversation with other artists. You say something, they say something, you move back and forth.
trying littles world
I don't try to be funny. It's just that I feel the world is a little bit absurd and off-kilter and I'm sort of reporting.
two surface articulation
A TWO-DIMENSIONAL SURFACE WITHOUT ANY ARTICULATION IS A DEAD EXPERIENCE
smart successful work-out
If you're smart, you abandon the things that didn't work out so well, and you enlarge upon the things that seem to be successful.
definitions normal why-not
I was always interested in language. I thought, why not? If a painting, by the normal definition of the term, is paint on canvas, why can't it be painted words on canvas?
photography cameras worst
Probably one of the worst things that happened to photography is that cameras have viewfinders.
photography art figures
I could never figure out why photography and art had separate histories. So I decided to explore both.
ideas vaudeville flaws
The idea of vaudeville clowns and court jesters is always to show the flaw, to point out what's not working and why it's not coherent.
desire feels humans
It's human desire to be understood. And we always feel we're not understood.
photography photograph
There's no such thing as a bad photograph.
window dickens felt
I always felt like I was right out of Dickens, looking in the window of the Christmas feast, but not at the feast.