Brian Eno
Brian Eno

Pop music can absorb so many peculiar talents, ranging from the completely nonmusical poseur who just uses music as a kind of springboard for a sense of style, to people who just love putting all that complicated stuff together, brick by brick, on their computers, to people like me who like playing conceptual games and being surprised.

Conrad Wolfram
Conrad Wolfram

Maths should be more practical and more conceptual, but less mechanical.

Cornelia Parker
Cornelia Parker

Traditional conceptual art is very dry.

Cornelia Parker
Cornelia Parker

Even though people think I am more of a conceptual artist, I am actually very intuitive. For me, it is still a matter of allowing things to naturally rise to the top of my mental pile, and then I make them.

Craig Venter
Craig Venter

I have an unusual type of thinking. I have no visual memory whatsoever. Everything is conceptual to me.

Cynthia Rowley
Cynthia Rowley

I try to look at design from a more conceptual standpoint.

Damien Hirst
Damien Hirst

Great art - or good art - is when you look at it, experience it and it stays in your mind. I don't think conceptual art and traditional art are all that different.

David Novak
David Novak

Unlike the issue of messiahhood, which arose when Jews and Christians were members of the same religio-political community and spoke the same conceptual language, the issues of the incarnation and the Trinity divide people who are no longer members of the same community and who no longer speak the same language.

Edmund Morgan
Edmund Morgan

Both European and American historians have done away with any conceptual limits on what in the past needs and deserves investigating. The result, among other things, has been a flood of works on gender history, black history, and ethnic history of all kinds.

Edmund Phelps
Edmund Phelps

I do think from time to time that conceptual questions arise: What do we mean by equilibrium? What do we mean by this concept and that concept?