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.

Art is the exclusion of the unnecessary.

By nature, I am a materialist... It is exactly these impingements upon our sense of touch and so forth that I'm interested in.

New York is dead. It's too expensive.

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

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

I've often stopped working for long periods.