Once it is out of his hand the artist has no control over the way a viewer will perceive the work. Different people will understand the same thing in a different way.

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

Every generation renews itself in its own way; there's always a reaction against whatever is standard.

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

The thinking of John Cage derived from Duchamp and Dada. I was not interested in that.

Most ideas that are successful are ludicrously simple. Successful ideas generally have the appearance of simplicity because they seem inevitable. In terms of idea the artist is free to even surprise himself. Ideas are discovered by intuition.

Minimal art went nowhere.