Dennis Oppenheim famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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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.
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Turning something upside-down elicits a reversal of content and pointing a steeple into the ground directs it to hell as opposed to heaven.
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Make things that carry with them the residue of where they have been.
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You can't understand how strange it was to be a sculptor who exhibited photographs. (On exhibitions of his earthworks and land art pieces.)
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The photograph gives constant reference to the rectangle. This forces any idea into the confines of pictorial illusionism.
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[The photographs] were there simply to indicate a radical art that had already vanished. The photograph was necessary only as a residue for communication.
-- Dennis Oppenheim
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Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
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To Lawren Harris art was almost a mission. He believed that a country which ignored the arts left no record of itself worth preserving.
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Priests might divide the world into good and bad. In battle there was strong and weak and nothing else.
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With enough of us, around the world, we'll not just send a strong message opposing the privatization of knowledge - we'll make it a thing of the past.
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When you can turn people on their head and shake them and no money falls out, then you know God's saying, "Move on, son."
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Paintings! They're like TV, but they don't move.
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Giulia Melucci has written a wonderfully funny and moving book. It's like Eat, Pray, Love, with recipes.
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I was very good at sitting. But I just read so much research about how horrible sitting is for you. It's like, it's really bad. It's like Paula-Deen-glazed-bacon-doughnut bad. So I now move around as much as possible.
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I don't like it when people don't look me dead in the eye. I move my head around trying to catch their eye.
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You may feel depressed, but it can't be so depressing that you can't move. No, I would say that people create in moments when they are elated about expressing their depression!
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