5 Quotes by Dennis Oppenheim

An artist works through exposed wounds.

Most of my work comes from ideas. I can usually do only a few versions of each idea. Land Art and Body Art were particularly strong concepts which allowed for a lot of permutations. But nevertheless, I found myself wanting to move onward into something else.

Turning something upside-down elicits a reversal of content and pointing a steeple into the ground directs it to hell as opposed to heaven.

The photograph gives constant reference to the rectangle. This forces any idea into the confines of pictorial illusionism.

Make things that carry with them the residue of where they have been.