Conceptual Artist

🇺🇸John Cage

Art

Fluxus

1912–1992

"Until I die there will be sounds. And they will continue following my death. One need not fear about the future of music."

🇺🇸Ilya Kabakov

Art

abstract art

1933–2023

"For me the art world is like a huge river, which began somewhere in the past and keeps flowing towards the future."

🇮🇹Piero Manzoni

Art

Arte Povera

1933–1963

"When I blow up a balloon, I am breathing my soul into an object that becomes eternal."

"Writing should generate ideas into matter, and not the other way around."

🇺🇸Douglas Huebler

Art

1924–1997

"The world is full of objects, more or less interesting; I do not wish to add any more."

🇬🇧Brian Eno

Music

b. 1948

"If you don’t call it art, you’re likely to get a better result."

🇩🇪Joseph Beuys

Art

Fluxus

1921–1986

"QUESTION: A well-known saying of yours asserts that 'Every man is an artist.' If every man is an artist, then why have art academies and art professors at all?"

🇺🇸Lawrence Weiner

Art

conceptual art

1942–2021

"I do not mind objects, but I do not care to make them."

🇬🇧Damien Hirst

Art

Young British Artists

b. 1965

"I started taking cocaine and drink ... I turned into a babbling fucking wreck."

🇬🇧Rachel Whiteread

Art

contemporary art

b. 1963

"I don't want to make plop art — sculpture that just gets plopped down in places. I wouldn't want to litter every corner of the world with my sculpture."

🇬🇧Tracey Emin

Art

Young British Artists

b. 1963

"There is no comparison between him and me; he developed a whole new way of making art and he's clearly in a league of his own. It would be like making comparisons with Warhol."

🇺🇸Barbara Kruger

Art

contemporary art

b. 1945

"I have no complaints, except for the world."

🇺🇸Sol LeWitt

Art

Minimalism

1928–2007

"Artists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach."

🇯🇵Yoko Ono

Art

Fluxus

b. 1933

"If your judgement is clouded, you must be carrying too many things which are being a burden to you."

"A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort to ally themselves with cultural institutions."

🇺🇸Joseph Kosuth

Art

conceptual art

b. 1945

"If one wanted to make a work of art devoid of meaning, it would be impossible because we’ve already given meaning to the work by indicating that it’s a work of art."

🇫🇷Yves Klein

Art

Nouveau réalisme

1928–1962

"The glaring obviousness of my paternity of monochromy in the twentieth century is such that even if I myself were to fight hard against that fact I should probably never manage to rid myself of it."