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

That's wonderful, but my mind has been destroyed by alcohol.

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

I was one of the first post-studio artists. I used to do my works in the streets. I used to find them in the streets, and I used to leave them in the streets.

Once you turn something into something, its universal usage is over.

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

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.