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

What I made depended on what I found on the street. At least in the beginning, my materials came from the street.

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

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.

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

I didn't study the piano - the piano studied me.

An artist, to achieve anything in art, has to finally do the thing that nobody else wants to do and nobody else has thought to do.