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

I believe that the artist's involvement in the capitalist structure is disadvantageous to the artist and forces him to produce objects in order to live.

In conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work

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.

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

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.

Most ideas that are successful are ludicrously simple