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.

The world is imperfect, and young people are always trying to perfect it and they always fail - which is a good thing. Who'd want to live in a perfect world?

Art is what we do. Culture is what is done to us. A photograph of an art object is not the art object. An essay about an artist's work is not the artist's work.

I didn't like men because they were so physically competitive. Men are always making a pecking order. "I can beat you up and you can beat him up ..."

An artist, to achieve anything in art, has to finally do the thing that nobody else wants to do and nobody else has thought to do.

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

I had no place to put anything. I would give my sculpture away because I had no place to put it.