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

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.

I was hanging out and drinking as long as I could afford it, or as long as somebody else could afford it.

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

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.

I believe that woman are superior to men.

I grew up in a brick house. What's wrong with bricks? An Englishman took me aside and said, "You have to understand, all the bricklayers in England are Irish, and the English hate the Irish."