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When artists make art, they shouldn't question whether it is permissible to do one thing or another.

Minimal art went nowhere.

One usually understands the art of the past by applying the conventions of the present thus misunderstanding the art of the past.

Formal art is essentially rational.

An architect doesn't go off with a shovel and dig his foundation and lay every brick. He's still an artist.

I wasn't really that interested in objects. I was interested in ideas.

Obviously a drawing of a person is not a real person, but a drawing of a line is a real line.

Buying books was a way anyone could acquire a work of art for very little.

A blind man can make art if what is in his mind can be passed to another mind in some tangible form.

The idea part is simple but the visual perception is complex.

One should be intelligent enough to know when not to be too intellectual

Every generation renews itself in its own way; there's always a reaction against whatever is standard.

The other great development has been in photography, but that too was influenced by Conceptual art.

You shouldn't be a prisoner of your own ideas.

The thinking of John Cage derived from Duchamp and Dada. I was not interested in that.

Artists teach critics what to think. Critics repeat what the artists teach them.

All of the significant art of today stems from Conceptual art. This includes the art of installation, political, feminist and socially directed art.

The idea becomes a machine that makes art.

Artists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach.

Conceptual art became the liberating idea that gave the art of the next 40 years its real impetus.

During the '70s I was interested in words and meaning as a way of making art.

Artists of many diverse types began using simple forms to their own ends.

Don't worry about cool, make your own uncool.

Banal ideas cannot be rescued by beautiful execution.

I was not interested in irony; I wanted to emphasize the primacy of the idea in making art.

Your work isn't a high stakes, nail-biting professional challenge. It's a form of play. Lighten up and have fun with it.

Conceptual art is only good if the idea is good.

New materials are one of the great afflictions of contemporary art. Some artists confuse new materials with new ideas.

What the work of art looks like isn't too important.

Ideas alone can be works of art; they are in a chain of development that may eventually find some form. All ideas need not be made physical.

In conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work

The artist is seen like a producer of commodities, like a factory that turns our refrigerators.

Minimalism wasn't a real idea - it ended before it started.

The narrative of serial art works more like music than like literature.

Irrational judgements lead to new experience.