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

A place is an area within an environment that has been altered in such a way to make the general environment more conspicuous.

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

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.

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

You might say that a creative person is a person who simply has a desire to have something, to add something to the world that's not there yet, and goes about arranging fort that to happen. When you desire a work of art and make it, you've added to the stock of art in the world. Artists are one of the people who can do that: add to the stock of things.

I'm afraid we get a great deal of our exposure to art through magazines and through slides and I think this is dreadful, this is anti-art because art is direct experience with something in the world and photography is just a rumor, a kind of pornography of art.