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.

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

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

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.

Art is the exclusion of the unnecessary.

New York is dead. It's too expensive.

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