“What the work of art looks like isn’t too important. It has to look like something, if it has physical form. No matter what form it may finally have, it must begin with an idea.”

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

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.

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

Every generation renews itself in its own way; there's always a reaction against whatever is standard.

I didn't want to save art - I respected the older artists too much to think art needed saving. But I knew it was finished, even though, at that time, I didn't know what I would do.

In my case, I used the elements of these simple forms - square, cube, line and color - to produce logical systems. Most of these systems were finite; that is, they were complete using all possible variations. This kept them simple.

Minimalism wasn't a real idea - it ended before it started.

Like almost all of the artists I knew, I was involved in all of these movements and was politically left-oriented.

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.

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