Bruce Nauman Quotations

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

I'm surprised when the work appears beautiful, and very pleased. And I think work can be very good and very successful without being able to call it beautiful, although I'm not clear about that. The work is good when it has a certain completeness, and when it's got a certain completeness, then it's beautiful.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Learn to recognise when you need to know something.

I don't like to think about being an influence. It's embarrassing.

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