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

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

New York is dead. It's too expensive.

Why carve? It's a better sculpture that way. I'll never improve the block. So I just started using uncarved blocks.

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 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.

SoHo was called Hell's Hundred Acres because it was full of sweatshops - without fire escapes. Completely not up to code. Every once in a while, these buildings would burn and 26 Puerto Ricans would be killed.