I didn't like men, but I liked women.

I was never good at painting. The great turning point came when I had a block of wood and I carved a shape into the wood and put a small piece of timber into that space - like a negative - and so it made an endless column, only inward.

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

When I came to New York, it was cheap!

I'm afraid we get a great deal of our exposure to art through magazines and through slides and I think this is dreadful, this is anti-art because art is direct experience with something in the world and photography is just a rumor, a kind of pornography of art.

You can always find somebody to beat up. This goes back to the schoolyard. Most men would think, Don't chum with girls. But I chummed with girls.

What do little kids do? They crawl on the floor and they build with blocks. I just continued to do that for the rest of my life.