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

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

I've often stopped working for long periods.

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

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.

A man climbs a mountain because it is there. An artist makes a work of art because it is not there.

I never stopped doing what I did as a child.