Most subjects at universities are taught for no other purpose than that they may be re-taught when the students become teachers.
An artist works through exposed wounds.
Most of my work comes from ideas. I can usually do only a few versions of each idea. Land Art and Body Art were particularly strong concepts which allowed for a lot of permutations. But nevertheless, I found myself wanting to move onward into something else.
Turning something upside-down elicits a reversal of content and pointing a steeple into the ground directs it to hell as opposed to heaven.
[The photographs] were there simply to indicate a radical art that had already vanished. The photograph was necessary only as a residue for communication.
Make things that carry with them the residue of where they have been.
The photograph gives constant reference to the rectangle. This forces any idea into the confines of pictorial illusionism.
Jock, when ye hae naething else to do, ye may be aye sticking in a tree; it will be growing, Jock, when ye 're sleeping.
When one makes the mind stick to one thought, the mind becomes rock-steady and the energy is conserved.
If I have stepped on some people at times because I am at the top, it couldn't be helped. What should I do if someone gets hurt. . . retire?
I always told Hitch that it would have been better to put seats around the set and sell tickets.