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."

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

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.

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

Americans understand better than the Europeans and the English that any publicity is good.

My art will reflect not necessarily conscious politics but the unanalysed politics of my life.

If you're any good as an artist, you have to be doing something nobody else has interest in. Nobody would be interested in my work except a few crazy people.