A man climbs a mountain because it is there. An artist makes a work of art because it is not there.

It seems with progress you gain certain things and you lose certain things. The automobile replaced the horse and buggy but you lost all of that nice manure.

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.

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.

It is futile for an artist to try to create an environment because you have an environment around you all the time. Any living organism has an environment.

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

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