You might say that a creative person is a person who simply has a desire to have something, to add something to the world that's not there yet, and goes about arranging fort that to happen. When you desire a work of art and make it, you've added to the stock of art in the world. Artists are one of the people who can do that: add to the stock of things.

Why carve? It's a better sculpture that way. I'll never improve the block. So I just started using uncarved blocks.

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.

You might say that a creative person is a person who simply has a desire to have something, to add something to the world that's not there yet, and goes about arranging fort that to happen. When you desire a work of art and make it, you've added to the stock of art in the world. Artists are one of the people who can do that: add to the stock of things.

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

That's wonderful, but my mind has been destroyed by alcohol.

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.