Laurence Weiner doesn't do lunch

Lawrence Weiner having a caipirinha in Sao Paulo
© Pablo Leon de la Barra/Centre for the Aesthetic Revolution.

"I don’t do lunch. I don’t like lunch, I don’t understand it. It seems to completely break your day, and things I do seem to take weeks, and if you start working on something, you want to continue to work. So I sort of work and work and the other people go out to lunch and they do things, and I just work my way through. It’s not very exciting. And people who come by, like you, have a cup of coffee and sit and they chat. I’m a real cocktail party kind of person. I prefer cocktail parties to anything else. With a cocktail party people can talk, and they’re not trapped." Lawrence Weiner interviewed by Thessaly La Force, The Paris Review.

Source: http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2011/02/14/lawrence-weiner/