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

I'm afraid we get a great deal of our exposure to art through magazines and through slides and I think this is dreadful, this is anti-art because art is direct experience with something in the world and photography is just a rumor, a kind of pornography of art.

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

I've often stopped working for long periods.

My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.

I think my work is very American because I'm American. But I found that Europeans like uncertainty and doubt.

What I made depended on what I found on the street. At least in the beginning, my materials came from the street.