Conceptual Quotes

There are very few things that are purely conceptual without any hard content. - Kevin Bacon

The visual is sorely undervalued in modern scholarship. Art history has attained only a fraction of the conceptual sophistication of literary criticism. Drunk with self-love, criticism has hugely overestimated the centrality of language to western culture. It has failed to see the electrifying sign language of images. - Camille Paglia

The thing is that I have a really intense, almost compulsive need to record. But it doesn't end there, because what I record is somehow transformed into a creative thing. There is a continuity. Recording is the beginning of a conceptual production. I am somehow collapsing the two - recording and producing - into a single event. - Rem Koolhaas

The special-needs cases are more tragic in some ways, but they can be simpler conceptually... Because it's more black and white. But the ones that are gray are where you have disparate incomes. - Harold Evensky

The simplistic concept (of lasers) probably derived from that old James Bond movie of a laser driving down at Sean Connery. It was a big-old device with a circular beam coming down. Conceptually, that's kind of correct, but all lasers today with those big beams come from gas or material lasers. - Malcolm Thompson

The proponents have on their side something that is widely popular. Conceptually, this is sort of apple pie. - Darry Sragow

The president of the provost gave a conceptual approval. There are two subcommittees on the Board of Trustees who will give the final blessing. - Patrick Bailey

The other great development has been in photography, but that too was influenced by Conceptual art. - Sol LeWitt