Buying books was a way anyone could acquire a work of art for very little.

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

The idea part is simple but the visual perception is complex.

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

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.

The idea becomes a machine that makes the art.

Artists teach critics what to think. Critics repeat what the artists teach them.