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Bruce Nauman Biography

Bruce Nauman (born December 6, 1941) is an American artist. His practice spans a broad range of media including sculpture, photography, neon, video, drawing, printmaking, and performance. Nauman lives near Galisteo, New Mexico.

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What is it that an artist does when he is left alone in his studio? My conclusion was that if I was an artist and I was in the studio, then everything I was doing in the studio should be art. . . . From that point on, art became more of an activity and less of a product.

Activity, Art, Became, Conclusion, Doe, Should

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

Embarrassing, Influence, Think, Thinking

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.

Know, Pose, Project, Projects, Sometimes, Turns

I'll talk. You'll listen.

Heart, Listen, Listen To Your Heart, Talk

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.

Hand, Hands, Interesting, Studio, Worry

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

Fell, Repeats, Sitting, Wall

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.

Lap, Laps, Like, Running, Swim, Swimmer

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

Different, Interesting, Kind, Kinds, Open

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.

Art, Basically, Figure, Figures, School, Thought

I get the feeling that sometimes the ideas work very well when you're doing them in the studio alone.

Alone, Feeling, Feelings, Ideas, Sometimes, Studio

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

Art, Artist, Studio, Studios

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.

Beautiful, Call, Clear, Completeness, Successful, Thinking

The true artist helps the world by revealing mystic truths.

Artist, Helping, Helps, Mystic, World

What I am really concerned about is what art is supposed to be - and can become.

Art, Art Is, Become, Concerned, Supposed

If you choose the wrong questions and you proceed, you still get a result, but it's not interesting.

Choose, Interesting, Proceed, Results, Stills

Sometimes I just have a few people over to see the new work, and I think it works better than in a museum situation, where the public is just presented with a large area.

Museum, People, Presented, Sometimes, Thinking

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

Idea, Ideas, Involve, Unusual, Video, Videos

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.

Factors, Keeps, Motivation, Stills, Studio, Studios

It's just strange to think about. . . whether I'll be an artist or what I'll be doing.

Artist, Strange, Think, Thinking

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.

Aspect, Capacity, Ignore, Make, People, Situations

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