You shouldn't be a prisoner of your own ideas.
Irrational judgements lead to new experience.
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.
Minimal art went nowhere.
The thinking of John Cage derived from Duchamp and Dada. I was not interested in that.
During the '70s I was interested in words and meaning as a way of making art.