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.

By nature, I am a materialist... It is exactly these impingements upon our sense of touch and so forth that I'm interested in.

A place is an area within an environment that has been altered in such a way to make the general environment more conspicuous.

Art is an intersection of many human needs.

I grew up in a brick house. What's wrong with bricks? An Englishman took me aside and said, "You have to understand, all the bricklayers in England are Irish, and the English hate the Irish."

When I came to New York, it was cheap!

Artists tend to be beyond embarrassment the way little children tend to be beyond embarrassment.