Quotes by Bruce Nauman

Bruce Nauman

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

Artist

Difficult

Teacher

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.

Projects

Sometimes

Turns

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

Asking The Right Questions

Interesting

You Choose

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.

Feelings

Mean

Tasks

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.

Anger

Frustration

Studios

I like to use my hands and make things… It might seem pretty stupid or pointless but that doesn’t matter… some of the most interesting work is the stuff that starts like that – out of a raw need for activity.

Hands

Interesting

Stupid

I’ll talk. You’ll listen.

Heart

Listen To Your Heart

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

Excuse You

No Excuses

Want

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

Art

Done

Integrity

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.

Drawing

Thinking

Trying

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Anger

Art

Artist

Asking The Right Questions

Difficult

Done

Drawing

Excuse You

Feelings

Figures

Frustration

Hands

Heart

Ideas

Integrity

Interesting

Knows

Listen To Your Heart

Mean

Needs

No Excuses

People

Projects

Recognise

Repeats

School

Sitting

Sometimes

Strange

Studios

Stupid

Tasks

Teacher

Thinking

Trying

Turns

Unusual

Video

Wall

Want

You Choose

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Quotes by Bruce Nauman

Bruce Nauman

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

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.

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

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.

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.

I like to use my hands and make things… It might seem pretty stupid or pointless but that doesn’t matter… some of the most interesting work is the stuff that starts like that – out of a raw need for activity.

I’ll talk. You’ll listen.

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

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

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.

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