All of the significant art of today stems from Conceptual art. This includes the art of installation, political, feminist and socially directed art.

You belong in the most secret part of you. Don’t worry about cool, make your own uncool. Make your own, your own world. If you fear, make it work for you—draw and paint your fear and anxiety.

Most ideas that are successful are ludicrously simple

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

Once it is out of his hand the artist has no control over the way a viewer will perceive the work. Different people will understand the same thing in a different way.

Also, since art is a vehicle for the transmission of ideas through form, the reproduction of the form only reinforces the concept. It is the idea that is being reproduced. Anyone who understands the work of art owns it. We all own the Mona Lisa.

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