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Joseph Kosuth Quotes

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

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

Joseph Kosuth
Art, Relation, Relate

Seeing is not as simple as looking.

Joseph Kosuth
Simple, Seeing
Clare Farrow, Joseph Kosuth (1994). “A Reinhardt, J Kosuth, F Gonzales-Torres - Symptoms of Interference - Art & Design Profile 34(Paper Only)”, John Wiley & Sons

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

Joseph Kosuth
Art

Forget your ideas about art. Make a shopping list of everything you like about what you've done. Include qualities that you've seen in your life, in the world, and possibly in art that you like. Take this list and make a work that satisfies all of the things on your list without caring if it looks like art.

Joseph Kosuth
Art, Caring, Shopping

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
Art, Ideas, Important
Clare Farrow, Joseph Kosuth (1994). “A Reinhardt, J Kosuth, F Gonzales-Torres - Symptoms of Interference - Art & Design Profile 34(Paper Only)”, John Wiley & Sons

I am only describing language, not explaining anything.

Joseph Kosuth
Language, Explaining, Describing

Change art to include yourself.

Joseph Kosuth
Art

When objects are presented within the context of art (and until recently objects always have been used) they are as eligible for aesthetic consideration as are any objects in the world, and an aesthetic consideration of an object existing in the realm of art means that the object's existence or functioning in an art context is irrelevant to the aesthetic judgment.

Joseph Kosuth
Art, Mean, World

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

Joseph Kosuth
Eye, Looks, Empty

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
Photography, Art, Together

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
Differences, World, Opinion

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
Photography, Art, Views

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