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.

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

A blind man can make art if what is in his mind can be passed to another mind in some tangible form.

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

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

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

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