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

A work of art may be understood as a conductor from the artist's mind to the viewer's. But it may never reach the viewer, or it may never leave the artist's mind.

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

[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.

One should be intelligent enough to know when not to be too intellectual

In conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work

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