Art is the exclusion of the unnecessary.

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

What do little kids do? They crawl on the floor and they build with blocks. I just continued to do that for the rest of my life.

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.

You could own coins but you couldn't have bars of gold. We were on the gold standard. I think it was Nixon who took us off the gold standard.

When I came to New York, it was cheap!

Why carve? It's a better sculpture that way. I'll never improve the block. So I just started using uncarved blocks.