Don’t worry about cool, make your own uncool.

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

The artist is seen like a producer of commodities, like a factory that turns out refrigerators.

The thinking of John Cage derived from Duchamp and Dada. I was not interested in that.

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.

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

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