Artists of many diverse types began using simple forms to their own ends.

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.

Artists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach.

A blind man can make art if what is in his mind can be passed to another mind in some tangible form.

Formal art is essentially rational.

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

[The artist's aim is] not to instruct the viewer, but to give him information... . The artist would follow his predetermined premise to its conclusion, avoiding subjectivity. Chance, taste, or unconsciously remembered forms would play no part in the outcome. The serial artist does not attempt to produce a beautiful or mysterious object but functions merely as a clerk cataloguing the results of his premise.