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.

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

Thou shalt not covet means that it is sinful even to contemplate the seizure of another man's goods - which is something which Socialists, whether Christian or otherwise, have never managed to explain away.

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

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

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.