The world is imperfect, and young people are always trying to perfect it and they always fail - which is a good thing. Who'd want to live in a perfect world?

Matter as matter rather than matter as symbol is a conscious political position, essentially Marxist.

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.

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

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've often stopped working for long periods.

It is futile for an artist to try to create an environment because you have an environment around you all the time. Any living organism has an environment.