In the place where I was a child, there were no artists and there was no art, so I really didn't know what that meant. I think I thought it meant that I would be in a situation different than the one that I was in.

When something is new to us, we treat it as an experience. We feel that our senses are awake and clear. We are alive.

I often find that having an idea in my head prevents me from doing something else. Working is therefore a way of getting rid of an idea.

There was very little art in my childhood. I was raised in South Carolina; I wasn't aware of any art in South Carolina. There was a minor museum in Charleston, which had nothing of interest in it. It showed local artists, paintings of birds.

Make something, a kind of object, which as it changes or falls apart (dies as it were) or increases in its parts (grows as it were) offers no clue as to what its state or form or nature was at any previous time. Physical and Metaphysical. Obstinacy. Could this be a useful object?

Cubism is an anatomical chart of a way of seeing external objects. But I want to confuse the meaning of the act of looking.

It's simple, you just take something and do something to it, and then do something else to it. Keep doing this, and pretty soon you've got something.