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

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

I'm a feminist. I've always been in favor of women.

Matter as matter rather than matter as symbol is a conscious political position, essentially Marxist.

I never stopped doing what I did as a child.

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.

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