As long as an artist's completed or displayed work conveys certain distinctive ideas that criticize or seek to subvert society, politics, the environment, human nature and even the artist himself or his ego, then it can be considered conceptual art. The focus of such work lies in its examination of the nature of art, and as such it can reasonably be said to approximate to philosophy.
只要是藝術家所完成或展示，並傳達某種獨特的思想，對於社會、政治、環境、人性，甚至藝術本身或藝術家自我進行批判與顛覆，都可以說是觀念藝術，它重在檢視藝術體質，幾近於一種哲學思辯。