I've taken away everything I could think of, and yet what remains is enough. These days many more people come to my work, and once they see my work they will always recognize it.

It's just that some things more important for this and less important for that, and this is true regardless the style of the art.

When I started teaching in the late 60s, in a time of student revolutions and changes, they changed in question of society and authority.

Often people do not properly value things that they are good at naturally because they find them too easy. That is very problematic.

All the basic information should be in the object itself.

I was poorer than anyone I'd ever met. But it was a great time to be a young artist - I remember it as a period of exceptional creative freedom and adventure, when one was regularly presented with works of art unlike anything one had ever seen before.

If you try to copy something exactly you won't get it correct, because you don't share the same tradition and context.