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

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

Isn't it wonderful to be an artist whose works have mostly been lost?

The girls you picked up from the bars were not the girls you took home to mother.

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

I was hanging out and drinking as long as I could afford it, or as long as somebody else could afford it.

I think it was Henry Moore who was asked where he got his ideas for his sculptures, and he said something like, "I continue to do as an adult the things I did as a child." I think that's what art is about.