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

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

When an artist uses a conceptual form of art, it means that all of the planning and decisions are made beforehand and the execution is a perfunctory affair. The idea becomes a machine that makes the art.

All intervening steps, scribbles, sketches, drawings, failed work models, studies thoughts, conversations, are of interest. Those that show the thought process of the artist are sometimes more interesting than the final product

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

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

The artist’s aim is not to instruct the viewer, but to give information, whether the viewer understands the information is incidental to the artist.