Walead Beshty Quotes

A sculpture is just a painting cut out and stood up somewhere.

Sculpture is something you bump into when you back up to look at a painting.

Sculpture occupies the same space as your body.

I had no intentions of going into sculpture but found that sculpture was just an extension of drawing.

The world of sculpture precedes by many years the world of architecture.

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

If Art relates itself to an Object, it becomes descriptive, divisionist, literary.

I'm not interested in pop art.

I'm a formalist. I'm interested in the history of painting.

Conceptual art, I don't even know what that is.

There is no such thing as abstract art, or else all art is abstract, which amounts to the same thing. Abstract art no more exists than does curved art yellow art or green art.

If I am not mistaken, the word "art" and "artist" did not exist during the Renaissance and before: there were simply architects, sculptors, and painters, practicing a trade.

I like the transience of Klimt paintings.

I had a natural feeling for sculpture, and the nudes are my sculpture.

I don't know if I'm an impressionist or an expressionist. You can call me an American first... I've been labeled doing neimanism, so that's what it is, I guess.

It took me twenty years to get Steven Parrino's work. From the time I first saw his art, in the mid-eighties, I almost always dismissed it as mannered, Romantic, formulaic, conceptualist-formalist heavy-metal boy-art abstraction.

The photographs that are art have to be separated from the rest - then preserved.

I feel uncomfortable with the term public art, because I'm not sure what it means. If it means what I think it does, then I don't do it. I'm not crazy about categories.

My mom is a sculptress.

I taught a lot of art history, especially Chinese, Japanese, and Indian. But the painting classes came back. The nudes came back. Not so much the still lifes. So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.

I paint landscapes, figuratives. I painted all my life. In fact, I started as a commercial artist.

I would see anything by Antony Gormley.

Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.

When I was growing up, all the art that touched me was lens-generated, like Gerhard Richter, or Polke, Rauschenberg, Warhol.

I think whatever art form you're in, whether TV, film or theater, you should know the history of who came before you and how the art form has changed or not changed and to learn from the greats.