I didn't study the piano - the piano studied me.

A place is an area within an environment that has been altered in such a way to make the general environment more conspicuous.

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.

You could own coins but you couldn't have bars of gold. We were on the gold standard. I think it was Nixon who took us off the gold standard.

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.

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

Why carve? It's a better sculpture that way. I'll never improve the block. So I just started using uncarved blocks.