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.

Artists tend to be beyond embarrassment the way little children tend to be beyond embarrassment.

Art is the exclusion of the unnecessary.

We don't have a single point of view for a road at all, except a moving one, moving along it.

Isn't it wonderful to be an artist whose works have mostly been lost?

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

I've often stopped working for long periods.