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

Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life.

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

My works have always been unjoined. People were always making variations of my works, and I just said, "I don't want to know." You can't put limits on those pieces. You can't be there all of the time when they're installed.

I think my work is very American because I'm American. But I found that Europeans like uncertainty and doubt.

Art is the exclusion of the unnecessary.

Why carve? It's a better sculpture that way. I'll never improve the block. So I just started using uncarved blocks.