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.

Isn't it wonderful to be an artist whose works have mostly been lost?

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.

Once you turn something into something, its universal usage is over.

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.

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.

If you forge a Carl Andre, it's just another Carl Andre. It's not like a Vermeer.