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.

One wants one's work to be the world, but of course it's never the world. The work is in the world; it never contains the whole thing.

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.

A-not-complete-unit, or a new unit. The elements in the 3 parts should neither fit nor not fit together. One would like not to be led. Avoid the idea of a puzzle which could be solved. Remove the signs of "thought." It is not "thought" which needs showing.

Intention involves such a small fragment of our consciousness and of our mind and of our life.

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?

I don't know how to organise thoughts. I don't know how to have thoughts.