American Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

What I'm trying to say is the Holocaust was a horrific crime against humanity and frankly, I would never want to see that repeated.

I'm saying the federal government is taking away the freedom of Americans to make choices.

And my response is 70,000 people in the state of Maine that paid income tax in 2011 will not be paying income tax in 2012.

The people of Maine were tired of being in debt and tired of being overtaxed.

You don't suffer, kill yourself and take the risks I take just for money. I love bike racing.

There are so many people who have died of cycling, and that didn't happen when I was racing.

Testing, we will never do enough of it.

Sincere apologies are for those that make them, not for those to whom they are made. Sincere apologies are for those that make them, not for those to whom they are made.

Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have the fundamentals, acquiring the experience is a matter of time.

It is cycling as a professional sport that represents the problem. It can transform someone into a liar.

I'm more optimistic about cycling right now than I've ever been.

I rode in a nine-day charity ride recently, averaged 43km a day and still finished in the lead group. I'm 38, not quite finished yet.

I know too that we Americans like to think of ourselves as cleaner than clean, a healthy nation who would never take anything when a recent poll suggested that 65 per cent of the population would risk dying in 10 years if they would be guaranteed Olympic gold.

I know it is possible to win the Tour without taking anything.

I know I'll never feel that sensation of racing and winning again and that took a while to get used to. The Tour was a race I never thought I could lose.