Lawrence Weiner Quotes About Painting

Quotes about: Painting

• The art schools seem to be trying to turn people out as "professional." But I don't know what the word "professional" means any longer. "Professional" would be somebody who was trying to push painting to a point that nobody else could do as well as he could. That would be my ideal professional.

  Lawrence Weiner

  Art, Mean, School

  Source: frontrow.dmagazine.com

• I stopped painting, not because I didn't like painting; the sensuality of it was fun. But I wasn't able to get to the point I wanted to.

  Lawrence Weiner

  Fun, Able, Painting

  Source: frontrow.dmagazine.com

• What art is not processed? "Conceptual art." Somebody making a painting has to conceive of the size. I don't understand where these words came from. I can't accept the fact that the concept of art as our concept of humanity is expanding.

  Lawrence Weiner

  Art, Humanity, Facts

  Source: frontrow.dmagazine.com

• You can't have a $2 million painting unless it's on the wall somewhere and somebody saw it.

  Lawrence Weiner

  Wall, Saws, Painting

  Source: frontrow.dmagazine.com

• Like the people that in the 60s or 70s claimed the "end of painting" - all they did was open up a whole new branch for painting. Happily, it doesn't work. It's not a reason for art. Closing something out is not a reason for something to exist.

  Lawrence Weiner

  Art, People, Branches

  Source: frontrow.dmagazine.com

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