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

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.

You might say that a creative person is a person who simply has a desire to have something, to add something to the world that's not there yet, and goes about arranging fort that to happen. When you desire a work of art and make it, you've added to the stock of art in the world. Artists are one of the people who can do that: add to the stock of things.

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.

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.

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

When I came to New York, it was cheap!