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

Also, since art is a vehicle for the transmission of ideas through form, the reproduction of the form only reinforces the concept. It is the idea that is being reproduced. Anyone who understands the work of art owns it. We all own the Mona Lisa.

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

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

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

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

The idea becomes a machine that makes the art.