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.

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

Art is what we do. Culture is what is done to us. A photograph of an art object is not the art object. An essay about an artist's work is not the artist's work.

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

You could own coins but you couldn't have bars of gold. We were on the gold standard. I think it was Nixon who took us off the gold standard.

It is futile for an artist to try to create an environment because you have an environment around you all the time. Any living organism has an environment.