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

Unless you're involved with thinking about what you're doing, you end up doing the same thing over and over, and that becomes tedious and, in the end, defeating.

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

When words such as painting and sculpture are used, they connote a whole tradition and imply a consequent acceptance of this tradition, thus placing limitations on the artist who would be reluctant to make art that goes beyond the limitations.

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

I didn't want to save art - I respected the older artists too much to think art needed saving. But I knew it was finished, even though, at that time, I didn't know what I would do.

Obviously a drawing of a person is not a real person, but a drawing of a line is a real line.