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.

I wasn't interested in car parts per se, I was interested in either the color or the shape or the amount... Just the sheet metal. It already had a coat of paint on it. And some of it was formed.... I believe that common materials are the best materials.

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

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

I'm more interested in seeing what the material tells me than in imposing my will on 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.

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