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

I never stopped doing what I did as a child.

An artist, to achieve anything in art, has to finally do the thing that nobody else wants to do and nobody else has thought to do.

I was never good at painting. The great turning point came when I had a block of wood and I carved a shape into the wood and put a small piece of timber into that space - like a negative - and so it made an endless column, only inward.

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

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.

It seems with progress you gain certain things and you lose certain things. The automobile replaced the horse and buggy but you lost all of that nice manure.