(b. 1931– )
U.S. conceptual artist
John Baldessari
Luckily, I’m blessed with a well-developed sense of absurdity—it’s what saved me.
Calvin Tompkins, “No More Boring Art: John Baldessari’s Crusade,” The New Yorker, October 18, 2010, 42–49.
I learned so much about art from watching a kid draw. I taught at the grade-school level. Kids don’t call it art when they’re throwing things around, drawing—they’re just doing stuff.
interview by David Salle, in Interview magazine.
For some reason, the idea of absence, of leaving things out, has been very important in my work.
“No More Boring Art: John Baldessari’s Crusade,” by Calvin Tomkins, The New Yorker, October 18, 2010, 42–49.