It is futile for an artist to try to create an environment because you have an environment around you all the time. Any living organism has an environment.

If you're any good as an artist, you have to be doing something nobody else has interest in. Nobody would be interested in my work except a few crazy people.

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

When I came to New York, it was cheap!

I was never good at painting. The great turning point came when I had a block of wood and I carved a shape into the wood and put a small piece of timber into that space - like a negative - and so it made an endless column, only inward.

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

Art is the exclusion of the unnecessary.