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.

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

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

I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs.

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 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.

The world is imperfect, and young people are always trying to perfect it and they always fail - which is a good thing. Who'd want to live in a perfect world?