The idea becomes a machine that makes the art.

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 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.

Artists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach.

Most ideas that are successful are ludicrously simple

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

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