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

I'll talk. You'll listen.
Bruce Nauman

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

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

In art, the only one who really knows whether what you've done is honest is the artist.
Bruce Nauman

And so I put down some of the things that he said, about keeping your tools sharpened and not letting them lie on the ground where they get hurt or get abused and dirty and can't find them. And some thoughts about how his father used to do things.
Bruce Nauman

In the studio, I don't do a lot of work that requires repetitive activity. I spend a lot of time looking and thinking and then try to find the most efficient way to get what I want, whether it's making a drawing or a sculpture, or casting plaster or whatever.
Bruce Nauman

If you really want to do it, you do it. There are no excuses.
Bruce Nauman