All intervening steps, scribbles, sketches, drawings, failed work models, studies thoughts, conversations, are of interest. Those that show the thought process of the artist are sometimes more interesting than the final product

The thinking of John Cage derived from Duchamp and Dada. I was not interested in that.

Banal ideas cannot be rescued by beautiful execution.

Every generation renews itself in its own way; there's always a reaction against whatever is standard.

The artist’s aim is not to instruct the viewer, but to give information, whether the viewer understands the information is incidental to the artist.

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

Irrational judgements lead to new experience.