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

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

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

I didn't want to save art - I respected the older artists too much to think art needed saving. But I knew it was finished, even though, at that time, I didn't know what I would do.

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

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

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