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.

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

I think it was Henry Moore who was asked where he got his ideas for his sculptures, and he said something like, "I continue to do as an adult the things I did as a child." I think that's what art is about.

The girls you picked up from the bars were not the girls you took home to mother.

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

People are always trading their excess for somebody else's excess. One country has a lot of aluminum so they trade aluminum for sugar. It's the law of supply and demand.

New York is dead. It's too expensive.