Joseph Kosuth Quotes

#1. All art (after Duchamp) is conceptual (in nature) because art only exists conceptually.

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#2. The 'value' of particular artists after Duchamp can be weighed according to how much they questioned the nature of art.

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#3. Seeing is not as simple as looking.

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#4. I am only describing language, not explaining anything.

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#5. That celebrated marriage of science and art, photography, seemed at the time to join together how we look at the world, art, with how we were coming to know it, science.

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#6. Unlike the marks of a painting, the photo seems to organize its 'opinions' in relation to the world; even when the photographs have clearly been manipulated, the 'opinions' seem to have all the more force, with the suggested 'participation of the world' articulating that 'opinion' as a difference.

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#7. Making something new to look at is a futile and empty act if its only audience is the eyes.

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#8. Anything can be art. Art is the relations between relations, not the relations between objects.

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#9. Change art to include yourself.

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#10. Photography, as an invention, was both art and science. The view it gave us of the world was in some measure acceptable because it was a product of our vision of the world; and it did so as part of the same process which seemed to impart 'truth': science.

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#11. I liked that the work itself was something other than simply what you saw It meant you could have an art work which was that idea of an art work, and its formal components weren't important.

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