(b. 1931– )
U.S. conceptual artist“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.”
more infosource: interview by David Salle, in Interview magazine.
category: art, children, creative process, drawing, teaching
medium: Interview
via: Austin Kleon's Tumblr“For some reason, the idea of absence, of leaving things out, has been very important in my work.”
more infosource: “No More Boring Art: John Baldessari’s Crusade,” by Calvin Tomkins, The New Yorker, October 18, 2010, 42–49.
category: absence, art, creative process, nothing
medium: magazine profile
“Luckily, I’m blessed with a well-developed sense of absurdity—it’s what saved me.”
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John Baldessari