Well, there's a morality in that you want your work to be good, I suppose.

If someone says it's art, it's art.

Art and architecture - all the arts - do not have to exist in isolation.

If a chair or a building is not functional, if it appears to be only art, it is ridiculous.

Any combining, mixing, adding, diluting, exploiting, vulgarizing, or popularizing of abstract art deprives art of its essence and depraves the artist's artistic consciousness. Art is free, but it is not a free-for-all.

You’re getting rid of the things that people used to think were essential to art. But that reduction is only incidental. I object to the whole reduction idea…if my work is reductionist it’s because it doesn’t have the elements that people thought should be there. But it has other elements I like.

And then we moved to New Jersey and I went to the Art Students League.