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

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

I never stopped doing what I did as a child.

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

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.

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 an intersection of many human needs.