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.

What I made depended on what I found on the street. At least in the beginning, my materials came from the street.

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

A man climbs a mountain because it is there. An artist makes a work of art because it is not there.

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

I didn't study the piano - the piano studied me.

The wood was better before I cut it, than after. I did not improve it in any way.