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

I have to be self-conscious of what I'm trying to do with my life.

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.

All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.

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

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