Being a creation of Man, art re-creates Man.

The image my work invokes is the image of good - not evil; the image of order - not chaos; the image of life - not death. And that is all the content of my constructions amounts to.

The shapes we are creating are not abstract, they are absolute. They are released from any already existant thing in nature and their content lies in themselves.

If an artist has no experience before he makes a painting or a sculpture, he is not an artist.

The Force of Art lies in its immediate influence on human psychology and in its active contagiousness.

The way of a creative mind is always positive, it always asserts; it does not know the doubts which are so characteristic of the scientific mind.

What we cannot express by the art of thinking, by the art of science or philosophy or logic, we can and should express by the poetic, visual, or some other arts.

We affirm depth as the only pictorial and plastic form of space.

Art has no need of philosophical arguments, it does not follow the signposts of philosophical systems; Art like life, dictates systems to philosophy.

God always brings someone into your life that has traveled the same path and knows the rocks you climbed to get to the end of the trail.

Our evening-long tango of stares had my head spinning.

August in Mississippi is different from July. As to heat, it is not a question of degree but of kind. July heat is furious, but in August the heat has killed even itself and lies dead over us.

Never stop listening to your audience.

When I hosted the dinner I served fast food hamburgers. It had nothing to do with black, white, purple, yellow, green race. it had nothing to do with Tiger or his family or his golf game.

There is no general doctrine which is not capable of eating out our morality if unchecked by the deep-seated habit of direct fellow-feeling with individual fellow-men.

When a man makes a woman his wife it's the highest compliment he can pay her – and usually it's the last.

If I was just normally intelligent, I could probably get away with it - but I'm fiercely intelligent and that's threatening.

The show I did in England catered to a broad range of people. I like that. I don't want nouveau cult status, though I know we've got that sort of audience in the states.

At school I'd want to be so small that nobody could see me, and so my work depicts and reflects me - what it felt like to grow up in a world of pain.