Art quotes about idea

Ian Burn
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«he idea of landscape does not just invoke rival institutional discourses, but today attracts wider and more urgent reflections. A commitment to representing the landscape has become about the ‘loss’ ...»

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reference::ARTISTS THINK: THE LATE WORKS OF IAN BURN ,1996, page 8

Claes Oldenburg

«We don't copy the objects we use, we try to transform them and we hope they go on transforming as you look at them. The idea of endless public dialogue.. ...»

Ad Reinhardt
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«Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.»

reference:Joseph Kosuth:Art after Philosophy and After,Collected Writing, 1966-1990,published in MIT Press Verlag,1991

Franz Kline

«There is imagery. Symbolism is a difficult idea. I’m not a symbolist. In other words, these are painting experiences. I don’t decide in advance that am going to paint a ...»

Jeff Koons

«I'm basically the idea person. I'm not physically involved in the production. I don't have the necessary abilities, so I go to the top people.»

Frank Stella

«The whole idea of making art is to be open, to be generous, and absorb the viewer and absorb yourself, to let them go into it. I have to go ...»

Marina Abramović
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«In the life of an artist it's not possible to have more than one good idea and if you are a real genius you maybe can have two ideas. Please ...»

reference::Künstler in der Lehre,published in Fundus Verlag,2007, page 227

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