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That should be the goal for all art, to be as simple as a flashcard.
— John Baldessari
Writing helped me understand what I was thinking about.
— John Baldessari
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.
— John Baldessari
Well, why is this art? Why isn't that art?
— John Baldessari
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.
— John Baldessari
I go back and forth between wanting to be abundantly simple and maddeningly complex.
— John Baldessari
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.
— John Baldessari
There's no such thing as a bad photograph.
— John Baldessari
Photos should suggest a word(s) and vice versa. They should be equal and interchangeable.
— John Baldessari
A TWO-DIMENSIONAL SURFACE WITHOUT ANY ARTICULATION IS A DEAD EXPERIENCE
— John Baldessari
Probably one of the worst things that happened to photography is that cameras have viewfinders.
— John Baldessari
I will not make anymore boring art.
— John Baldessari
A lot of ideas don't translate very well into art. To say, "Oh my god, the grass is green ... " You're going to end up with a big green painting.
— John Baldessari
If I saw the art around me that I liked, then I wouldn't do art.
— John Baldessari
I think I live such a boring life. But I can't imagine any other kind of life, so I guess it's the life I want.
— John Baldessari
I could never figure out why photography and art had separate histories. So I decided to explore both.
— John Baldessari
I used to jokingly say, "I don't teach art. I'm an art doctor." Students come to me and say, "My art's sick," and we help them make it well.
— John Baldessari
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.
— John Baldessari
I want to produce images that startle one into recollection.
— John Baldessari
I always felt like I was right out of Dickens, looking in the window of the Christmas feast, but not at the feast.
— John Baldessari
Artists are better at finding a way to kill their time.
— John Baldessari
