When I came to New York, it was cheap!

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.

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.

What I made depended on what I found on the street. At least in the beginning, my materials came from the street.

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

Art is an intersection of many human needs.

By nature, I am a materialist... It is exactly these impingements upon our sense of touch and so forth that I'm interested in.