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

It seems with progress you gain certain things and you lose certain things. The automobile replaced the horse and buggy but you lost all of that nice manure.

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.

I was one of the first post-studio artists. I used to do my works in the streets. I used to find them in the streets, and I used to leave them in the streets.

A place is an area within an environment that has been altered in such a way to make the general environment more conspicuous.

Art is the exclusion of the unnecessary.

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