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.

You could own coins but you couldn't have bars of gold. We were on the gold standard. I think it was Nixon who took us off the gold standard.

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.

My art will reflect not necessarily conscious politics but the unanalysed politics of my life.

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

The wood was better before I cut it, than after. I did not improve it in any way.

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