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

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

I had no place to put anything. I would give my sculpture away because I had no place to put it.

I never stopped doing what I did as a child.

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.

Lenin thought abstract art was a conspiracy by the bourgeois to demoralize the proletariat. Yeah, socialist realism!

If you're any good as an artist, you have to be doing something nobody else has interest in. Nobody would be interested in my work except a few crazy people.