I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs.

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

You can always find somebody to beat up. This goes back to the schoolyard. Most men would think, Don't chum with girls. But I chummed with girls.

If you forge a Carl Andre, it's just another Carl Andre. It's not like a Vermeer.

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?

Why carve? It's a better sculpture that way. I'll never improve the block. So I just started using uncarved blocks.

I was never good at painting. The great turning point came when I had a block of wood and I carved a shape into the wood and put a small piece of timber into that space - like a negative - and so it made an endless column, only inward.