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Jannis Kounellis Quotes

1936–2017 Greece

Jannis Kounellis (23 March 1936 – 16 February 2017) was a Greek artist.

Greece
Painters

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I don't know if I'm making myself clear, but if I were to accept this business of conceptual art I would have no reason to exist.

Kristine Stiles & Peter Howard Selz: Theories and documents of contemporary art (1996)

I don't want to delve into the past for archeological pleasure - though it could have been that - but because the past has a reality which conditions us deep down. Then if you bring it slowly to the surface, it's full of possibilities.

Kristine Stiles & Peter Howard Selz: Theories and documents of contemporary art (1996)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Jannis Kounellis (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.