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

My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.

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

I was hanging out and drinking as long as I could afford it, or as long as somebody else could afford it.

Art is the exclusion of the unnecessary.

Art is an intersection of many human needs.

You might say that a creative person is a person who simply has a desire to have something, to add something to the world that's not there yet, and goes about arranging fort that to happen. When you desire a work of art and make it, you've added to the stock of art in the world. Artists are one of the people who can do that: add to the stock of things.