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

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.

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

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

Art is what we do. Culture is what is done to us. A photograph of an art object is not the art object. An essay about an artist's work is not the artist's work.

I'm afraid we get a great deal of our exposure to art through magazines and through slides and I think this is dreadful, this is anti-art because art is direct experience with something in the world and photography is just a rumor, a kind of pornography of art.

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