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 think my work is very American because I'm American. But I found that Europeans like uncertainty and doubt.

Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life.

I've never been a representational artist at all. Most artists have been representational. That's when you discover yourself.

Why carve? It's a better sculpture that way. I'll never improve the block. So I just started using uncarved blocks.

We don't have a single point of view for a road at all, except a moving one, moving along it.

What I made depended on what I found on the street. At least in the beginning, my materials came from the street.