 Abstraction is everybody's zero but nobody's nought. |
| I am for an art that takes into account the direct effect of the elements as they exist from day to day apart from representation. |
| Visiting a museum is a matter of going from void to void. |
| From the top of the quarry cliffs, one could see the New Jersey suburbs bordered by the New York City skyline. |
| History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy. |
| Language should be an ever developing procedure and not an isolated occurrence. |
| A vacant white room with lights is still a submission to the neutral. Works of art seen in such spaces seem to be going through a kind of esthetic convalescence. |
| Questions about form seem as hopelessly inadequate as questions about content. |
| Mistakes and dead-ends often mean more to these artists than any proven problem. |
| Language thus becomes monumental because of the mutations of advertising. |
| Some artists imagine they've got a hold on this apparatus, which in fact has got a hold of them. As a result, they end up supporting a cultural prison that is out of their control. |
| Artists are expected to fit into fraudulent categories. |
| Nature is never finished. |
| Language operates between literal and metaphorical signification. |
| An emotion is suggested and demolished in one glance by certain words. |
| The scenic ideals that surround even our national parks are carriers of a nostalgia for heavenly bliss and eternal calmness. |
| When a finished work of 20thcentury sculpture is placed in an 18th-century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us. |
| Museums are tombs, and it looks like everything is turning into a museum. |
| Banal words function as a feeble phenomena that fall into their own mental bogs of meaning. |
| A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a portable object or surface disengaged from the outside world. |
