A sculpture is something that if it falls on your foot, it will break it.

I think of my art materials not as junk but as garbage. Manure, actually: it goes from being the waste material of one being to the life-source of another.

But now that foreign steel, and foreign cars, are moving into the United States in increased quantities at relatively low prices, the United States can no longer keep its business system fluid by inflation.

The good thing about being an artist, is it's a legitimate way of looking at things cross-eyed.

Art is basically made by dissatisfied people who are willing to find some means to relieve the dissatisfaction.

Art is a liaison between some sort of deranged mentality and others who are not going through it.

Two hundred years ago the first liberal economist, Adam Smith, warned businessmen that they could absorb only a certain amount of rigidity. In the easy days after World War II... wage rises could be financed out of inflationary price increases.