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.

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

After a few months in my parents' basement, I took an apartment near the state university, where I discovered both crystal methamphetamine and conceptual art. Either one of these things are dangerous, but in combination they have the potential to destroy entire civilizations.

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

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.