You shouldn't be a prisoner of your own ideas.
Minimal art went nowhere.
In conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work
During the '70s I was interested in words and meaning as a way of making art.
Unless you're involved with thinking about what you're doing, you end up doing the same thing over and over, and that becomes tedious and, in the end, defeating.
Artists teach critics what to think. Critics repeat what the artists teach them.