SoHo was called Hell's Hundred Acres because it was full of sweatshops - without fire escapes. Completely not up to code. Every once in a while, these buildings would burn and 26 Puerto Ricans would be killed.

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.

My art will reflect not necessarily conscious politics but the unanalysed politics of my life.

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

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

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

Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life.