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.

A place is an area within an environment that has been altered in such a way to make the general environment more conspicuous.

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.

I've often stopped working for long periods.

New York is dead. It's too expensive.

Art is the exclusion of the unnecessary.

Americans understand better than the Europeans and the English that any publicity is good.