The artist is seen like a producer of commodities, like a factory that turns out refrigerators.

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

One usually understands the art of the past by applying the conventions of the present thus misunderstanding the art of the past.

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.

Minimal art went nowhere.

Minimalism wasn't a real idea - it ended before it started.