Look at the chaos of European history. Europeans cannot believe in certainty. But Americans believe in certainty. Americans think this can go on like this forever. Just as it is. No change.

I was never good at painting. The great turning point came when I had a block of wood and I carved a shape into the wood and put a small piece of timber into that space - like a negative - and so it made an endless column, only inward.

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

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

Americans understand better than the Europeans and the English that any publicity is good.

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.

A man climbs a mountain because it is there. An artist makes a work of art because it is not there.