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.

You shouldn't be a prisoner of your own ideas.

I wasn't really that interested in objects. I was interested in ideas.

During the '70s I was interested in words and meaning as a way of making art.

Buying books was a way anyone could acquire a work of art for very little.

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

Banal ideas cannot be rescued by beautiful execution.