People are always trading their excess for somebody else's excess. One country has a lot of aluminum so they trade aluminum for sugar. It's the law of supply and demand.

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.

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

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

I didn't like men because they were so physically competitive. Men are always making a pecking order. "I can beat you up and you can beat him up ..."

I think it was Henry Moore who was asked where he got his ideas for his sculptures, and he said something like, "I continue to do as an adult the things I did as a child." I think that's what art is about.

What do little kids do? They crawl on the floor and they build with blocks. I just continued to do that for the rest of my life.