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.

The other great development has been in photography, but that too was influenced by Conceptual art.

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

When artists make art, they shouldn't question whether it is permissible to do one thing or another.

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.

The artist is seen like a producer of commodities, like a factory that turns our refrigerators.

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.

I believe that the artist's involvement in the capitalist structure is disadvantageous to the artist and forces him to produce objects in order to live.

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.

Minimal art went nowhere.

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

The system is the work of art; the visual work of art is the proof of the System. The visual aspect can't be understood without understanding the system. It isn't what it looks like but what it is that is of basic importance.

Buying books was a way anyone could acquire a work of art for very little.

The thinking of John Cage derived from Duchamp and Dada. I was not interested in that.

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

Conceptual art became the liberating idea that gave the art of the next 40 years its real impetus.

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.

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

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

The narrative of serial art works more like music than like literature.

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.

I became interested in making books, starting about 1965, when I did the Serial Project #1, deciding that I needed a small book to show how the work could be understood and how the system worked.

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.

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

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

If you did the same thing you did yesterday as you did today as you will do tomorrow, what have you done? The same thing.

The calibre of TV's changing. It's becoming much more epic. To rival film, definitely.

No, I'm sure that there's a lot of L.A. bands out there.

Instead of focusing on that circumstances that you cannot change – focus strongly and powerfully on the circumstances that you can.

When I'm not working, I definitely I like waking up at noon.

If you replace a soldier with a machine, you take away the possibility of the soldier or the policeman to not do something the state asks of him. He may think it's unethical to do it. A machine doesn't have that critical perspective.

Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.

I've never been one of the cool people at school, but then again, I don't get the people who are cool. It's not that I don't like them, it's just that they don't interest me.

After I left D.C. to join Black Flag, I felt I was in a band.

I can remember the three restaurant experiences of my childhood. All I wanted to do on my birthday was to go to the Automat in New York... but I don't know if you consider that a real restaurant.

It's amazing what we can get away with and what we can't. But it's not for me to decide.

Never be haughty to the humble or humble to the haughty.

Greece could default on its debts and even exit currency bloc if it cannot deliver reforms.

I just enjoy lying on the couch and reading a magazine.

No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar.

It would be great if companies could just magically know what I'm looking for on their website or what I'm coming to the website for.

I always got a kick out of it when they called it the California Sound because it really came out of Liverpool and Greenwich Village.

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

Might, could, would - they are contemptible auxiliaries.

I started writing prose before I started writing television. Then 'Breaking Bad' came around, and to me, writing 'Breaking Bad' is like writing a novel each season. So it's been very creatively satisfying writing for the show.

I'm a Hollywood pinhead; I don't know about political labels.

Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.

It's an endless proving of myself, that I really am a musician, that I have something to offer in the room. That women can be musicians, women can be rock stars, women can be more than an objectified idea of a pop star.