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

Artists tend to be beyond embarrassment the way little children tend to be beyond embarrassment.

By nature, I am a materialist... It is exactly these impingements upon our sense of touch and so forth that I'm interested in.

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?

Once you turn something into something, its universal usage is over.

What do little kids do? They crawl on the floor and they build with blocks. I just continued to do that for the rest of my life.

New York is dead. It's too expensive.