An architect doesn't go off with a shovel and dig his foundation and lay every brick. He's still an artist.

Ideas alone can be works of art; they are in a chain of development that may eventually find some form. All ideas need not be made physical.

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.

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

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

Your work isn't a high stakes, nail-biting professional challenge. It's a form of play. Lighten up and have fun with it.

Formal art is essentially rational.