Conceptualist Quotes & Sayings

It was only with the emergence of the Conceptualist approaches of the late 1960s that the opposition between artists using photography and photographers became explicit. — Jean-Francois Chevrier

It took me twenty years to get Steven Parrino's work. From the time I first saw his art, in the mid-eighties, I almost always dismissed it as mannered, Romantic, formulaic, conceptualist-formalist heavy-metal boy-art abstraction. — Jerry Saltz

John Baldessari, the 79-year-old conceptualist, has spent more than four decades making laconic, ironic conceptual art-about-art, both good and bad. — Jerry Saltz

I don't get a fair whack, I don't pursue vendettas or punch people on the nose. — John Prescott

I don't work as a conceptualist. Let's say the conceptual art model is that you have a project idea, or a set of concerns, and then you illustrate those concerns in whatever manner you see appropriate. For me, it has always been that the world suggests far more subtle and interesting variations than I could ever come up with. — John Gossage

I think I'm good with actors. I like directing actors. I also like to show up and just do an acting gig. Where I'm just a hired gun, I don't have to have an opinion on anything.I never got involved in all this stuff because I wanted to control stuff; I got involved in writing and producing because I wasn't getting interesting acting gigs. In a way I'm grateful that I didn't get interesting roles, because it made me pull my finger out and do some work. — Steve Coogan

The film is about Joe discovering who his mother and father are and his relationship with them, and the identity crisis he goes through once he finds out who his parents are. — Christopher Eccleston

Daisy had no idea how to put herself to rights again. But she thought it would be a good thing to stop thinking about herself and do something for someone else. — Lisa Kleypas

There's nothing like desire to prevent the things one says from having any resemblance to the things in one's mind. — Marcel Proust

Truth isn't handed *down*, brother. You beat it out with *hammers* and anneal it in your own *blood*. — Mike Carey

A modest demeanor arouses thoughts of seduction. — Mason Cooley

Seek self before you venture to conquer the world. Most of what you are looking for is rooted inside you. — Eric Onyango Otieno

The lies that lurk in the shadows of truth. — Moira Young

People spend their lives in the service of their passions instead of employing their passions in the service of their lives. — Richard Steele