What is the art world? I never really understood. I started doing this stuff to do what I want to do. Not to be this or that.

Maybe an artist's position in society is different today because it's more individualistic. You're not a direct servant anymore to the patron-you're an indirect servant, or a servant with a choice, or maybe you could not even serve. It's the way you make something. You draw it, you carve it out. Later you build it up from a flat surface. There is no other way to do a sculpture - you either add or you subtract. If you don't enjoy making work, then it's bad... artwork is brutal for so many people... I like the idea of an artist as sombody who works.

I love seeing tattoos on 60-year-olds who have had them for 40 years.

I think it's bad for human beings to be artists. It's awful. You want to do something but you're constantly trying to decide what you want to do. Let's just say it's no place like Hawaii.

What is the art world? I never really understood. I started doing this stuff to do what I want to do. Not to be this or that.

I could see the works just living in reproductions. The work lives on like fantasy. Some live even better as just an image.

Take a relief. You draw it, you carve it out. Later you build it up from a flat surface. There is no other way to do a sculpture - you either add or you subtract.