All ideas grow out of other ideas

One cannot set out to make a work that's spiritual. What is a contemporary iconography for the spiritual? Is it some fuzzy space?

A work will only have deep resonance if the kind of darkness I can generate is something that is resident in me already

Red, of course, is the colour of the interior of our bodies. In a way it's inside out, red.

The work itself has a complete circle of meaning and counterpoint. And without your involvement as a viewer, there is no story.

Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.

If you get a bad review, you take that in your stride.

I think I understand something about space. I think the job of a sculptor is spatial as much as it is to do with form.

One doesn't make art for other people, even though I am very concerned with the viewer

That freedom that Picasso afforded himself, to be an artist in a huge number of ways, seems to be a huge psychological liberation.

We live in a fractured world. I've always seen it as my role as an artist to attempt to make wholeness.

Never give up. It might not seem easy at first but in the end, it will all be worth it

and love is a word usedtoo much andmuchtoo soon.

I'm the scratchy stuff on the side of the matchbox. But that's fine with me. I don't mind at all. Better to be a first-class matchbox than a second-class match.

Until kids find something worth dying for, they don't have anything worth living for.

For me, the act of photography is all about discovery and finding new things.

The United Nations is the greatest fraud in history. Its purpose is to destroy the United States.

Usually I'm able to imagine something and it comes out as I imagined, more or less.

Richard was a riddle with no answer, and I was tired of playing a game I couldn't win.

There is no class of people in the world, who have such good memories as creditors.

Mainly, I feel very fortunate to be able to do what I love.