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.

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

SoHo was called Hell's Hundred Acres because it was full of sweatshops - without fire escapes. Completely not up to code. Every once in a while, these buildings would burn and 26 Puerto Ricans would be killed.

When I came to New York, it was cheap!

I think it was Henry Moore who was asked where he got his ideas for his sculptures, and he said something like, "I continue to do as an adult the things I did as a child." I think that's what art is about.

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

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.