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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.