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

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.

The girls you picked up from the bars were not the girls you took home to mother.

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

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.

I think it was Henry Moore who was asked where he got his ideas for his sculptures, and he said something like, "I continue to do as an adult the things I did as a child." I think that's what art is about.

I think my work is very American because I'm American. But I found that Europeans like uncertainty and doubt.