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.

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.

I was one of the first post-studio artists. I used to do my works in the streets. I used to find them in the streets, and I used to leave them in the streets.

When I came to New York, it was cheap!

I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs.

I've often stopped working for long periods.

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.