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

Lenin thought abstract art was a conspiracy by the bourgeois to demoralize the proletariat. Yeah, socialist realism!

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."

I think my work is very American because I'm American. But I found that Europeans like uncertainty and doubt.

The wood was better before I cut it, than after. I did not improve it in any way.

Money is a very complicated problem. The history of money is very curious.

I didn't like men, but I liked women.