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

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.

Most art is fragile and some should be placed and never moved away.

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

I think most of the art now is involved with a denial of any kind of absolute morality, or general morality.

The attitude and capacity of the factory, the old metal table and the new ideas of the wooden furniture quickly and naturally suggested the possibility of metal furniture.

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.