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

Money is a very complicated problem. The history of money is very curious.

I think my work is very American because I'm American. But I found that Europeans like uncertainty and doubt.

You could own coins but you couldn't have bars of gold. We were on the gold standard. I think it was Nixon who took us off the gold standard.

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?

I've never been a representational artist at all. Most artists have been representational. That's when you discover yourself.

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.