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

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

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

The wood was better before I cut it, than after. I did not improve it in any way.

Matter as matter rather than matter as symbol is a conscious political position, essentially Marxist.

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.

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.