Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life.

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

I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs.

My art will reflect not necessarily conscious politics but the unanalysed politics of my life.

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

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.

You might say that a creative person is a person who simply has a desire to have something, to add something to the world that's not there yet, and goes about arranging fort that to happen.. ...when you desire a work of art and make it, you've added to the stock of art in the world. Artists are one of the people who can do that: add to the stock of things.

Art is what we do. Culture is what is done to us. A photograph of an art object is not the art object. An essay about an artist's work is not the artist's work.

Art is the exclusion of the unnecessary.