Robert Irwin
Excursus: Homage to the Square³

“To be an artist is not a matter of making paintings or objects at all.
What we are really dealing with is our state of consciousness
and the shape of our perception.

The act of art is a tool for extended consciousness.
Perhaps the future role of the artist will be to act directly as the arbiter of qualities in our lives.
Quality not as an add-on, as it is now, but as criteria in all matters of planning.

My art has never been about ideas. . . . My interest in art has never been about abstraction;
it has always been about experience. . . . My pieces were never meant to be dealt with
intellectually as ideas, but to be considered experientially.”