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Top 25 Bruce Nauman Quotes (2024 Update)

Bruce Nauman Quote: “If you really want to do it, you do it. There are no excuses.”

1. “If you really want to do it, you do it. There are no excuses.”

— Bruce Nauman

Bruce Nauman Quote: “If I was an artist, and I was in the studio, then whatever I was doing in the studio must be art.”

2. “If I was an artist, and I was in the studio, then whatever I was doing in the studio must be art.”

— Bruce Nauman

Bruce Nauman Quote: “The true artist helps the world by revealing mystic truths.”

3. “The true artist helps the world by revealing mystic truths.”

— Bruce Nauman

Bruce Nauman Quote: “Pete and Repeat were sitting on a wall. Pete fell off. Who was left? Repeat.”

4. “Pete and Repeat were sitting on a wall. Pete fell off. Who was left? Repeat.”

— Bruce Nauman

Bruce Nauman Quote: “In art, the only one who really knows whether what you’ve done is honest is the artist.”

5. “In art, the only one who really knows whether what you’ve done is honest is the artist.”

— Bruce Nauman

Bruce Nauman Quote: “And the part about being a professional artist is that you can tell and you can do it over again, even if you can’t say how you got there exactly.”

6. “And the part about being a professional artist is that you can tell and you can do it over again, even if you can’t say how you got there exactly.”

— Bruce Nauman

Bruce Nauman Quote: “Did you stop because it was good enough, or could have done more – but then maybe ruined it too? Sometimes you finish because you’ve gone too far.”

7. “Did you stop because it was good enough, or could have done more – but then maybe ruined it too? Sometimes you finish because you’ve gone too far.”

— Bruce Nauman

Bruce Nauman Quote: “My work is basically an outgrowth of the anger I feel about the human condition. The aspects of it that make me angry are our capacity for cruelty and the ability people have to ignore situations they don’t like.”

8. “My work is basically an outgrowth of the anger I feel about the human condition. The aspects of it that make me angry are our capacity for cruelty and the ability people have to ignore situations they don’t like.”

— Bruce Nauman

Bruce Nauman Quote: “Learn to recognise when you need to know something.”

9. “Learn to recognise when you need to know something.”

— Bruce Nauman

Bruce Nauman Quote: “One of the factors that still keeps me in the studio is that every so often I have to more or less start all over.”

10. “One of the factors that still keeps me in the studio is that every so often I have to more or less start all over.”

— Bruce Nauman

Bruce Nauman Quote: “A good teacher is like a good artist. They go right to the most difficult part of whatever’s going on.”

11. “A good teacher is like a good artist. They go right to the most difficult part of whatever’s going on.”

— Bruce Nauman

Bruce Nauman Quote: “In the studio, I don’t do a lot of work that requires repetitive activity. I spend a lot of time looking and thinking and then try to find the most efficient way to get what I want, whether it’s making a drawing or a sculpture, or casting plaster or whatever.”

12. “In the studio, I don’t do a lot of work that requires repetitive activity. I spend a lot of time looking and thinking and then try to find the most efficient way to get what I want, whether it’s making a drawing or a sculpture, or casting plaster or whatever.”

— Bruce Nauman

Bruce Nauman Quote: “When I was in art school, I thought art was something I would learn how to do, and then I would just do it. At a certain point I realized that it wasn’t going to work like that. Basically, I would have to start over every day and figure out what art was going to be.”

13. “When I was in art school, I thought art was something I would learn how to do, and then I would just do it. At a certain point I realized that it wasn’t going to work like that. Basically, I would have to start over every day and figure out what art was going to be.”

— Bruce Nauman

Bruce Nauman Quote: “I want to be in the studio. I want to be doing something. You just do whatever is at hand, and you don’t even worry about whether it’s going to be interesting or not interesting to anybody else-or even yourself. You just have to make something.”

14. “I want to be in the studio. I want to be doing something. You just do whatever is at hand, and you don’t even worry about whether it’s going to be interesting or not interesting to anybody else-or even yourself. You just have to make something.”

— Bruce Nauman

Bruce Nauman Quote: “What I am really concerned about is what art is supposed to be – and can become.”

15. “What I am really concerned about is what art is supposed to be – and can become.”

— Bruce Nauman

Bruce Nauman Quote: “I’ll talk. You’ll listen.”

16. “I’ll talk. You’ll listen.”

— Bruce Nauman

Bruce Nauman Quote: “Generalised anger and frustration is something that gets you in the studio, and gets you to work – though it’s not necessarily evident in anything that’s finished.”

17. “Generalised anger and frustration is something that gets you in the studio, and gets you to work – though it’s not necessarily evident in anything that’s finished.”

— Bruce Nauman

Bruce Nauman Quote: “It’s interesting when you make things or do things that open up the possibilities for making more things, or different kinds of things.”

18. “It’s interesting when you make things or do things that open up the possibilities for making more things, or different kinds of things.”

— Bruce Nauman

Bruce Nauman Quote: “And then what makes the work interesting is if you choose the right questions.”

19. “And then what makes the work interesting is if you choose the right questions.”

— Bruce Nauman

Bruce Nauman Quote: “My videos always involve some idea of a human being in a unusual situation-and what happens.”

20. “My videos always involve some idea of a human being in a unusual situation-and what happens.”

— Bruce Nauman

Bruce Nauman Quote: “If you choose the wrong questions and you proceed, you still get a result, but it’s not interesting.”

21. “If you choose the wrong questions and you proceed, you still get a result, but it’s not interesting.”

— Bruce Nauman

Bruce Nauman Quote: “I don’t like to think about being an influence. It’s embarrassing.”

22. “I don’t like to think about being an influence. It’s embarrassing.”

— Bruce Nauman

Bruce Nauman Quote: “And sometimes the question that you pose or the project that you start yourself turns into something else, you know, but at least it gets you started.”

23. “And sometimes the question that you pose or the project that you start yourself turns into something else, you know, but at least it gets you started.”

— Bruce Nauman

Bruce Nauman Quote: “But part of the enjoyment I take in it is finding the most efficient way to do it, which doesn’t mean the corrections aren’t made. I like to have a feeling of the whole task before I start, even if it changes.”

24. “But part of the enjoyment I take in it is finding the most efficient way to do it, which doesn’t mean the corrections aren’t made. I like to have a feeling of the whole task before I start, even if it changes.”

— Bruce Nauman

Bruce Nauman Quote: “And I don’t have any specific steps to take because I don’t start the same way every time. But there is a knowing when it’s enough and you can leave it alone.”

25. “And I don’t have any specific steps to take because I don’t start the same way every time. But there is a knowing when it’s enough and you can leave it alone.”

— Bruce Nauman

Bruce Nauman Quote: “But if you can find that spot – I suppose it’s like running – I used to be a swimmer and swim laps, and you just have to be there with what you’re doing.”

26. “But if you can find that spot – I suppose it’s like running – I used to be a swimmer and swim laps, and you just have to be there with what you’re doing.”

— Bruce Nauman

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