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

Art is the exclusion of the unnecessary.

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

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

Art is an intersection of many human needs.

What do little kids do? They crawl on the floor and they build with blocks. I just continued to do that for the rest of my life.

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.

Once you turn something into something, its universal usage is over.

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

If you're any good as an artist, you have to be doing something nobody else has interest in. Nobody would be interested in my work except a few crazy people.

The wood was better before I cut it, than after. I did not improve it in any way.

If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.

Contentment is joy of life.

Every time I look at you I get a fierce desire to be lonesome.

I mean, I think a healthy country is a country where people are healthy physically, and a smart country is a country where people are educated.

I think the word is adult!

If it has a shelf life longer than you, don't eat it.

Never has there been one possessed of complete sincerity who did not move others. Never has there been one who had not sincerity who was able to move others.

Eat all the junk food you want as long as you cook it yourself.

I would say both Western psychology and Eastern paths would recognize that we get caught up in feeling like a separate self and an unworthy self.

I like a guy who uses his hips when he's dancing.