Artists tend to be beyond embarrassment the way little children tend to be beyond embarrassment.

By nature, I am a materialist... It is exactly these impingements upon our sense of touch and so forth that I'm interested in.

Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life.

I grew up in a brick house. What's wrong with bricks? An Englishman took me aside and said, "You have to understand, all the bricklayers in England are Irish, and the English hate the Irish."

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.

New York is dead. It's too expensive.

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