53 Quotes by John Baldessari

Photos should suggest a word(s) and vice versa. They should be equal and interchangeable.

I could never figure out why photography and art had separate histories. So I decided to explore both.

That should be the goal for all art, to be as simple as a flashcard.

Most of my friends are women. I think women are more interesting to talk to.

Well, why is this art? Why isn't that art?

If you're smart, you abandon the things that didn't work out so well, and you enlarge upon the things that seem to be successful.

I was always interested in language. I thought, why not? If a painting, by the normal definition of the term, is paint on canvas, why can't it be painted words on canvas?

Writing helped me understand what I was thinking about.

I used to jokingly say, "I don't teach art. I'm an art doctor." Students come to me and say, "My art's sick," and we help them make it well.