Occupation: Artist Birth: September 16, 1935
I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs..
SoHo was called Hell's Hundred Acres because it was full of sweatshops - without fire escapes. Completely not up to code. Every once in a while, thes….
I never stopped doing what I did as a child..
I had no place to put anything. I would give my sculpture away because I had no place to put it..
I didn't study the piano - the piano studied me..
New York is dead. It's too expensive..
Look at the chaos of European history. Europeans cannot believe in certainty. But Americans believe in certainty. Americans think this can go on like….
I think my work is very American because I'm American. But I found that Europeans like uncertainty and doubt..
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….
I'm a feminist. I've always been in favor of women..
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….
Why carve? It's a better sculpture that way. I'll never improve the block. So I just started using uncarved blocks..
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 ...".
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….
A place is an area within an environment that has been altered in such a way to make the general environment more conspicuous..
Lenin thought abstract art was a conspiracy by the bourgeois to demoralize the proletariat. Yeah, socialist realism!.
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….
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….
Matter as matter rather than matter as symbol is a conscious political position, essentially Marxist..
Art is an intersection of many human needs..
By nature, I am a materialist... It is exactly these impingements upon our sense of touch and so forth that I'm interested in..