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.

My works have always been unjoined. People were always making variations of my works, and I just said, "I don't want to know." You can't put limits on those pieces. You can't be there all of the time when they're installed.

Lenin thought abstract art was a conspiracy by the bourgeois to demoralize the proletariat. Yeah, socialist realism!

I've never been a representational artist at all. Most artists have been representational. That's when you discover yourself.

Artists tend to be beyond embarrassment the way little children tend to be beyond embarrassment.

I didn't like men because they were so physically competitive. Men are always making a pecking order. "I can beat you up and you can beat him up ..."

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