53 Quotes by Bruce Nauman

I'm surprised when the work appears beautiful, and very pleased. And I think work can be very good and very successful without being able to call it beautiful, although I'm not clear about that. The work is good when it has a certain completeness, and when it's got a certain completeness, then it's beautiful.

One of the factors that still keeps me in the studio is that every so often I have to more or less start all over.

And the part about being a professional artist is that you can tell and you can do it over again, even if you can't say how you got there exactly.

Learn to recognise when you need to know something.

It's interesting when you make things or do things that open up the possibilities for making more things, or different kinds of things.

And sometimes the question that you pose or the project that you start yourself turns into something else, you know, but at least it gets you started.

I'll talk. You'll listen.

My videos always involve some idea of a human being in a unusual situation-and what happens.

Did you stop because it was good enough, or could have done more - but then maybe ruined it too? Sometimes you finish because you've gone too far.