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

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.

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.

You can always find somebody to beat up. This goes back to the schoolyard. Most men would think, Don't chum with girls. But I chummed with girls.

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

I was hanging out and drinking as long as I could afford it, or as long as somebody else could afford it.

I'm afraid we get a great deal of our exposure to art through magazines and through slides and I think this is dreadful, this is anti-art because art is direct experience with something in the world and photography is just a rumor, a kind of pornography of art.