I was one of the first post-studio artists. I used to do my works in the streets. I used to find them in the streets, and I used to leave them in the streets.

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.

My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.

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

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.

Art is the exclusion of the unnecessary.

I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs.