"Something must first resemble what we expect it to look like before we take notice." Christopher Ross, Tunnel Visions: Journeys of an Underground Philosopher.
“Banal ideas cannot be rescued by beautiful execution” Sol Lewitt. Sentence 32 from Sentences on Conceptual Art (1969) Art-Language 1:1, 11-13. Excerpted by editor Peter Osborne. 2002. Conceptual Art. P222. Phaidon Press Limited:
"Simple, clear purpose and principles give rise to complex and intelligent behaviour. Complex rules and regulations give rise to stupid and simple behaviour” Dee Hock, unknown publication.
"A culture achieves consistency not by treating things and situations constantly in their own terms but by signifying the character of their participation in a system" Sapir, J and Crocker, J (Eds.). 1997. The Social Use of Metaphor:53.
“The role of artworks is no longer to form imaginary and utopian ideals, but to actually be ways of living and models of action within the existing real” Lefebvre quoted by Bourriaud, Nicholas. 1998, translated 2002. Relational Aesthetics:13. Les Presses du reel:
“If the audience…was given the tools and the possibility of intervening to express creatively their own order, their own certainty, arrived at personally...this actual personal creative experience would be more meaningful to people than their innate position as passive witnesses to referential experience in the traditional audience role.” Willats, Stephen. 2000. Art and Social Function:8. Ellipsis: