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

That's wonderful, but my mind has been destroyed by alcohol.

Look at the chaos of European history. Europeans cannot believe in certainty. But Americans believe in certainty. Americans think this can go on like this forever. Just as it is. No change.

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

I grew up in a brick house. What's wrong with bricks? An Englishman took me aside and said, "You have to understand, all the bricklayers in England are Irish, and the English hate the Irish."

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

The wood was better before I cut it, than after. I did not improve it in any way.