When I came to New York, it was cheap!

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.

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

New York is dead. It's too expensive.

I'm afraid we get a great deal of our exposure to art through magazines and through slides and I think this is dreadful, this is anti-art because art is direct experience with something in the world and photography is just a rumor, a kind of pornography of art.

I've never been a representational artist at all. Most artists have been representational. That's when you discover yourself.