Kosuth Quotes

#1. 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.

Joseph Kosuth

#2. 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.

Joseph Kosuth

#3. Don't tell me Kinshasa, the poorest city in the poorest country in the world, a place where the average per capita income is one goat bell, two bootleg Michael Jackson cassette tapes, and three sips of potable water per year, thinks we're too poor to associate with.

Paul Beatty

#4. In spite of what youngsters think, parents do not get a sneaky thrill out of punishing their children.

Eoin Colfer

#5. 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.

Joseph Kosuth

#6. I felt like the girl who showed up at a formal dinner party in jeans and a Pink Floyd T-shirt. Probably 'cause I did that once.

Darynda Jones

#7. Change art to include yourself.

Joseph Kosuth

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

Joseph Kosuth

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

Joseph Kosuth

#10. Don't feel the need to sugarcoat it for me, Doc."
"That was the sugar-coated version. DO you want the ugly truth?"
"Do you charge extra for the ugly truth?"
"No, only sugarcoating incurs an additional charge, like sprinkles.

Genna Rulon

#11. 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.

Joseph Kosuth

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

Joseph Kosuth

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

Joseph Kosuth

#14. Knowledge is not enough to get desired results. You must have the more elusive ability to teach and to motivate. This defines a leader; if you can't teach and you can't motivate, you can't lead.

John Wooden

#15. Seeing is not as simple as looking.

Joseph Kosuth

#16. I love getting in the open floor and running.

Chris Bosh

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

Joseph Kosuth

#18. Life satisfaction essentially measures cheerful moods, so it is not entitled to a central place in any theory that aims to be more than a happiology.

Martin Seligman

#19. Forgiveness is the ultimate liberator of our mind, body, and spirit.

Asa Don Brown

#20. On the other hand the machine does not bleed, ache, hang for hours in the empty sky in a torment of hope to learn the fate of another machine, nor does it cry out with joy nor dance in the air with the fierce passion of a bird.

Loren Eiseley

#21. She's just a little faint," I reassured Mrs. Hammond. "They're blood typing in biology."
She nodded, understanding now. "There's always one."
I stifled a laugh. Trust Bella to be that one.

Stephenie Meyer