John Baldessari Quotes

I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way.

All I care about these days is painting — photography has never been more than a way into painting, a sort of instant drawing.

I've been painting and drawing and taking pictures as long as I've been writing music - and I've actually been drawing longer than I've been writing music.

I looked at Rembrandt and Superman, Matisse and Bugs Bunny, and began to make my own pictures.

I always saw myself as a multi media artist.

A photo is a creation.

David is purely a conceptual artist. He didn't play any instruments or paint or anything. We were painters.

Photography led me to experiment in graphic work and, actually, painting.

It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.

I love painting. As far as photography is concerned, I understand nothing.

I could take a photo, but I'd rather paint a picture.

I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.

I'm very interested in the language of photography in relationship to painting.

I wanted to get into art. I did some neon stuff. I worked in, not computer-generated, but computer manipulation of pictures.

Painting is a coalescing of experience.

Sometimes I wish the writing and drawing were more integrated.

Fashion photographers are the new painters.

I like creating images.

I didn't do so well in the academic world, so I think the only way I could express myself was through visual art - anything I could get my hands on, whether it was glassblowing, sculpture, painting, or photography. I always wanted to be a painter. Or a farmer.

I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.

See, a painting is much cheaper than making a film. And photography is, you know, way cheap. So if I get an idea for a film, there are many ways to get it together and go realise that film. There's really nothing to be afraid of.

It was only after I began to write fiction that I found a way to connect with painting.

I don't want to be a film-maker. I think painting is far more exciting and profound.

I had tried painting, mostly to give myself a greater appreciation of the craft and to inform how I looked at paintings. That led to collaging some of the work I had done on paper, and I found myself mixing in found pieces as well.

I make static art, not dynamic art. That's what I do.