Dennis Oppenheim Quotes

#1. Seriously, who has monogrammed pajamas?

Rick Riordan

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

Dennis Oppenheim

#3. You can't understand how strange it was to be a sculptor who exhibited photographs. (On exhibitions of his earthworks and land art pieces.)

Dennis Oppenheim

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

Dennis Oppenheim

#5. 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.

Dennis Oppenheim

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

Dennis Oppenheim

#7. A hack writer who would not have been considered fourth rate in Europe.
(on Mark Twain)

William Faulkner

#8. [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

#9. Who knows, perhaps the will to please leads people to crime as often as evil or greed does. People want to fit in and do well, and they do indescribably stupid things because of it. Is that what happened here?

David Lagercrantz

#10. For a poet, it will be terrible if there are no women. He will not have anything to write about.

Debasish Mridha

#11. It is our duty to concentrate all our influence to make popular that which is sound and good, and unpopular that which is unsound.

Joseph Smith Jr.