My works have always been unjoined. People were always making variations of my works, and I just said, "I don't want to know." You can't put limits on those pieces. You can't be there all of the time when they're installed.

You could own coins but you couldn't have bars of gold. We were on the gold standard. I think it was Nixon who took us off the gold standard.

What do little kids do? They crawl on the floor and they build with blocks. I just continued to do that for the rest of my life.

Art is an intersection of many human needs.

It is futile for an artist to try to create an environment because you have an environment around you all the time. Any living organism has an environment.

People are always trading their excess for somebody else's excess. One country has a lot of aluminum so they trade aluminum for sugar. It's the law of supply and demand.

New York is dead. It's too expensive.