New York is dead. It's too expensive.

My art will reflect not necessarily conscious politics but the unanalysed politics of my life.

If you're any good as an artist, you have to be doing something nobody else has interest in. Nobody would be interested in my work except a few crazy people.

Matter as matter rather than matter as symbol is a conscious political position, essentially Marxist.

I didn't study the piano - the piano studied me.

You can always find somebody to beat up. This goes back to the schoolyard. Most men would think, Don't chum with girls. But I chummed with girls.

My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.