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.

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.

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

I never stopped doing what I did as a child.

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.

You can always find somebody to beat up. This goes back to the schoolyard. Most men would think, Don't chum with girls. But I chummed with girls.

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