I never drove a car in my life. Given my drinking habits in those days, I would have been dead a long time ago - stumbling out of a bar at 4 a.m. and getting into a car.

A man climbs a mountain because it is there. An artist makes a work of art because it is not there.

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

It seems with progress you gain certain things and you lose certain things. The automobile replaced the horse and buggy but you lost all of that nice manure.

We don't have a single point of view for a road at all, except a moving one, moving along it.

People are always trading their excess for somebody else's excess. One country has a lot of aluminum so they trade aluminum for sugar. It's the law of supply and demand.

If you forge a Carl Andre, it's just another Carl Andre. It's not like a Vermeer.