Art is an intersection of many human needs.

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.

I'm a feminist. I've always been in favor of women.

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

Look at the chaos of European history. Europeans cannot believe in certainty. But Americans believe in certainty. Americans think this can go on like this forever. Just as it is. No change.

If you forge a Carl Andre, it's just another Carl Andre. It's not like a Vermeer.

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.