"Words are just a way we communicate. Images are a way we communicate. And I couldn't figure out why they had to be in different baskets."
"Hanging Man (With Sunglasses)" (1984)
"Hanging Man (With Sunglasses)," 1984
Black-and-white photographs, 61 1/2 x 47 1/2 inches
© John Baldessari
Courtesy the artist
Black-and-white photographs, 61 1/2 x 47 1/2 inches
© John Baldessari
Courtesy the artist
"In music we call it sampling; in art we call it appropriation. I really just don’t think imagery should be owned, including my own. If it’s part of our world, it’s like owning words. How could you own words? It’s stuff to use."
-John Baldessari
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