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.

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

Matter as matter rather than matter as symbol is a conscious political position, essentially Marxist.

Lenin thought abstract art was a conspiracy by the bourgeois to demoralize the proletariat. Yeah, socialist realism!

When I came to New York, it was cheap!

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

I never stopped doing what I did as a child.