New materials are one of the great afflictions of contemporary art. Some artists confuse new materials with new ideas.

Your work isn't a high stakes, nail-biting professional challenge. It's a form of play. Lighten up and have fun with it.

You shouldn't be a prisoner of your own ideas.

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

The most interesting characteristic of the cube is that it is relatively uninteresting. Compared to any other three-dimensional form, the cube lacks any aggressive force, implies no motion, and is least emotive. Therefore, it is the best form to use as a basic unit for any more elaborate function, the grammatical device from which the work may proceed.

Most ideas that are successful are ludicrously simple

One usually understands the art of the past by applying the conventions of the present thus misunderstanding the art of the past.