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.

When I came to New York, it was cheap!

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.

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

An artist, to achieve anything in art, has to finally do the thing that nobody else wants to do and nobody else has thought to do.

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

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.