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

I never stopped doing what I did as a child.

Art is an intersection of many human needs.

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

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

I grew up in a brick house. What's wrong with bricks? An Englishman took me aside and said, "You have to understand, all the bricklayers in England are Irish, and the English hate the Irish."

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