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John Baldessari, the 79-year-old conceptualist, has spent more than four decades making laconic, ironic conceptual art-about-art, both good and bad.

— Jerry Saltz

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Conceptual art became the liberating idea that gave the art of the next 40 years its real impetus.

— Sol LeWitt

I have been known as the minimal and conceptual artist for over five decades. I think I haven't changed much.

— Yoko Ono

I've loved art for more than 30 years.

— Jeffrey Archer

That is, an artist who creates lots of work probably experiences prolific days and slower days.

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

I have to say, Alejandro Colucci is amazing. I had seen his work several times before I started making the connection between the art and the person making it, and when I heard that he was going to work on the cover for 'Seven Forges,' that connection was not yet cemented.

— James A. Moore

Artistic qualities that once seemed undeniable don't seem so now. Sometimes these fluctuations are only fickleness of taste, momentary glitches in an artist's work, or an artist getting ahead of his audience (it took me ten years to catch up to Albert Oehlen). Other times, however, these problems mean there's something wrong with the art.

— Jerry Saltz

Aging is not uncomplicated. Creativity is an extraordinary help against destructive demons.

— Ingmar Bergman

✗Opposing Perspectives

We live in an age where the artist is forgotten. He is a researcher. I see myself that way.

— David Hockney

It took me twenty years to get Steven Parrino's work. From the time I first saw his art, in the mid-eighties, I almost always dismissed it as mannered, Romantic, formulaic, conceptualist-formalist heavy-metal boy-art abstraction.

— Jerry Saltz

Art Modell was a visionary, a deal-maker and a friend. And he possessed a marvelous sense of humor.

— Steve Tisch