I've often stopped working for long periods.

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

Matter as matter rather than matter as symbol is a conscious political position, essentially Marxist.

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.

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

Americans understand better than the Europeans and the English that any publicity is good.

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