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.
What the work of art looks like isn't too important.
Banal ideas cannot be rescued by beautiful execution.
One usually understands the art of the past by applying the conventions of the present thus misunderstanding the art of the past.
Artists of many diverse types began using simple forms to their own ends.
I was not interested in irony; I wanted to emphasize the primacy of the idea in making art