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.

I'm afraid we get a great deal of our exposure to art through magazines and through slides and I think this is dreadful, this is anti-art because art is direct experience with something in the world and photography is just a rumor, a kind of pornography of art.

I've often stopped working for long periods.

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

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

I had no place to put anything. I would give my sculpture away because I had no place to put it.

My art will reflect not necessarily conscious politics but the unanalysed politics of my life.