What the work of art looks like isn't too important. It has to look like something if it has a physical form. No matter what form it may finally have it must begin with an idea. It is the process of conception and realization with which the artist is concerned.

New materials are one of the great afflictions of contemporary art. Some artists confuse new materials with new ideas.

Don’t worry about cool, make your own uncool.

Conceptual art became the liberating idea that gave the art of the next 40 years its real impetus.

One usually understands the art of the past by applying the conventions of the present thus misunderstanding the art of the past.

Banal ideas cannot be rescued by beautiful execution.

Irrational judgements lead to new experience.