A blind man can make art if what is in his mind can be passed to another mind in some tangible form.
The artist is seen like a producer of commodities, like a factory that turns our refrigerators.
Conceptual art became the liberating idea that gave the art of the next 40 years its real impetus.
All of the significant art of today stems from Conceptual art. This includes the art of installation, political, feminist and socially directed art.
The other great development has been in photography, but that too was influenced by Conceptual art.
Just as the development of earth art and installation art stemmed from the idea of taking art out of the galleries, the basis of my involvement with public art is a continuation of wall drawings.
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.
The thinking of John Cage derived from Duchamp and Dada. I was not interested in that.
Minimalism wasn't a real idea - it ended before it started.
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.
When artists make art, they shouldn't question whether it is permissible to do one thing or another.
I was not interested in irony; I wanted to emphasize the primacy of the idea in making art.
