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.

New York is dead. It's too expensive.

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.

Art is the exclusion of the unnecessary.

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

By nature, I am a materialist... It is exactly these impingements upon our sense of touch and so forth that I'm interested in.

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