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.

If you're any good as an artist, you have to be doing something nobody else has interest in. Nobody would be interested in my work except a few crazy people.

I've often stopped working for long periods.

I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs.

My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.

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.

A place is an area within an environment that has been altered in such a way to make the general environment more conspicuous.