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

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

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

Artists of many diverse types began using simple forms to their own ends.

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.

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

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