I'm afraid we get a great deal of our exposure to art through magazines and through slides and I think this is dreadful, this is anti-art because art is direct experience with something in the world and photography is just a rumor, a kind of pornography of art.

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

The world is imperfect, and young people are always trying to perfect it and they always fail - which is a good thing. Who'd want to live in a perfect world?

New York is dead. It's too expensive.

Art is the exclusion of the unnecessary.

When I came to New York, it was cheap!

I believe that woman are superior to men.