Why carve? It's a better sculpture that way. I'll never improve the block. So I just started using uncarved blocks..

Matter as matter rather than matter as symbol is a conscious political position, essentially Marxist..

I'm a feminist. I've always been in favor of women..

I think my work is very American because I'm American. But I found that Europeans like uncertainty and doubt..

A place is an area within an environment that has been altered in such a way to make the general environment more conspicuous..

I grew up in a brick house. What's wrong with bricks? An Englishman took me aside and said, "You have to understand, all the bricklayers in England a….

Art is an intersection of many human needs..

It is futile for an artist to try to create an environment because you have an environment around you all the time. Any living organism has an enviro….

By nature, I am a materialist... It is exactly these impingements upon our sense of touch and so forth that I'm interested in..

Americans understand better than the Europeans and the English that any publicity is good..

My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there..

I've often stopped working for long periods..

When I came to New York, it was cheap!.

I didn't like men, but I liked women..

A man climbs a mountain because it is there. An artist makes a work of art because it is not there..

An artist, to achieve anything in art, has to finally do the thing that nobody else wants to do and nobody else has thought to do..

I didn't like men because they were so physically competitive. Men are always making a pecking order. "I can beat you up and you can beat him up ...".

The world is imperfect, and young people are always trying to perfect it and they always fail - which is a good thing. Who'd want to live in a perfec….

It seems with progress you gain certain things and you lose certain things. The automobile replaced the horse and buggy but you lost all of that nice….

Lenin thought abstract art was a conspiracy by the bourgeois to demoralize the proletariat. Yeah, socialist realism!.

I was never good at painting. The great turning point came when I had a block of wood and I carved a shape into the wood and put a small piece of tim….