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

I never stopped doing what I did as a child.

I didn't study the piano - the piano studied me.

I've often stopped working for long periods.

I think it was Henry Moore who was asked where he got his ideas for his sculptures, and he said something like, "I continue to do as an adult the things I did as a child." I think that's what art is about.

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.

By nature, I am a materialist... It is exactly these impingements upon our sense of touch and so forth that I'm interested in.