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

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

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

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.

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

I think it was Henry Moore who was asked where he got his ideas for his sculptures, and he said something like, "I continue to do as an adult the things I did as a child." I think that's what art is about.