My idea was to chose an object that wouldn't attract me, either by its beauty or by its ugliness. To find a point of indifference in my looking at it, you see

The Chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chessboard, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem

Since the tubes of paint used by the artist are manufactured and ready made products we must conclude that all the paintings in the world are 'readymades aided' and also works of assemblage.

It's not what you see that is art. Art is the gap.

This concern which interests us more than anything else: the blurring of the distinction between art and life.

I feel shame, not for the wrong things I have done, but for the right things that I have failed to do.

I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.