Artists try to ask questions, and within our society, unless there are artists, those questions don't get asked. And everybody blames the market.
Lawrence WeinerThere is a primacy of each individual object. And we'll see! That's the whole point of making sculpture, to present a question in a physical form to people.
Lawrence WeinerYou can't have a $2 million painting unless it's on the wall somewhere and somebody saw it.
Lawrence WeinerAccreditation. The "doctorate of fine art." I've never heard something so stupid in my entire life.
Lawrence WeinerGenitive is a funny word because it means "from," but it also is the gender in European languages for objects: the masculine, feminine, and neuter. So if you have a genitive present, there's room for everybody to fit in. I just did a project in Vienna about rock, paper, scissor; you change the gender and it simply changes the whole thing. Rock is no longer a male. It doesn't function the same way.
Lawrence Weiner