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.

Matter as matter rather than matter as symbol is a conscious political position, essentially Marxist.

Americans understand better than the Europeans and the English that any publicity is good.

You can always find somebody to beat up. This goes back to the schoolyard. Most men would think, Don't chum with girls. But I chummed with girls.

I was one of the first post-studio artists. I used to do my works in the streets. I used to find them in the streets, and I used to leave them in the streets.

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

Art is the exclusion of the unnecessary.