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.

You could own coins but you couldn't have bars of gold. We were on the gold standard. I think it was Nixon who took us off the gold standard.

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

I never drove a car in my life. Given my drinking habits in those days, I would have been dead a long time ago - stumbling out of a bar at 4 a.m. and getting into a car.

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.

People are always trading their excess for somebody else's excess. One country has a lot of aluminum so they trade aluminum for sugar. It's the law of supply and demand.