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."

Art is what we do. Culture is what is done to us. A photograph of an art object is not the art object. An essay about an artist's work is not the artist's work.

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

I've never been a representational artist at all. Most artists have been representational. That's when you discover yourself.

Art is an intersection of many human needs.

I believe that woman are superior to men.

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