“The way I sometimes block out parts of some pictures, for example, is part of a flirtatious game I play with the viewer. If I show you everything, it’s going to be ho-hum. If I make a picture a guessing game, I might capture your attention for a little bit longer. There is a hierarchy of vision that I’m interested in attacking and breaking down. If you look at a photograph of people in a room, you’re going to look at their faces first. You’re not going to look at a book that’s on a table. What I try to do is make you look at the book on the table.”

John Baldessari

“Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see.”

Rene Magritte