Quotes from a book on Chris Burden

"Conceptual art was one thing. It was clean, generally quiet and nonaggressive; it was almost always a black and white affair which politely limited itself to turgid quasi-phiolosphical investigations into the nature of art. But Burden broke the rules."

• David A. Ross, Chris Burden's Television, In Sue Henger and Peter Kosenko (Eds) "Chris Burden, a Twenty-Year Survey". Irvine, California. p. 30

"There is clearly a certain amount of self-testing in Burden's early work , but it is far from arbitrary and automatic. The ingenious way Burden keeps changing its method -- the obsessive way he keeps reinventing his self-test -- forces us to ask what desperate purpose he is proving himself." -Donald Kuspit (1988). Chris Burden: A Sculptor's Sensibility

• The Early Years. In Sue Henger and Peter Kosenko (Eds) "Chris Burden, a Twenty-Year Survey". Irvine, California. p. 38