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.

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

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

Art is what we do. Culture is what is done to us. A photograph of an art object is not the art object. An essay about an artist's work is not the artist's work.

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

A man climbs a mountain because it is there. An artist makes a work of art because it is not there.

It seems with progress you gain certain things and you lose certain things. The automobile replaced the horse and buggy but you lost all of that nice manure.