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.

Lenin thought abstract art was a conspiracy by the bourgeois to demoralize the proletariat. Yeah, socialist realism!

Art is the exclusion of the unnecessary.

I had no place to put anything. I would give my sculpture away because I had no place to put it.

That's wonderful, but my mind has been destroyed by alcohol.

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

My works have always been unjoined. People were always making variations of my works, and I just said, "I don't want to know." You can't put limits on those pieces. You can't be there all of the time when they're installed.