Earth is the material with the most potential because it is the original source material.

A strong work of art really leaves people speechless. They feel a little angry because they don't understand it.

The type of work I like is pure and simple and profound.

They are works of art that can be considered works of art but don't have to be in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum.

Frank Gehry for instance likes to imagine his buildings as sculptures. I like to imagine my sculptures as architectural.

Landscape to me is a planar thing, just a view. Environment is everything down to the ecosystem. Big difference.

I make static art, not dynamic art. That's what I do.

I’m self-entertaining. My dialogue is with myself.

This theme of bigness — all painters and sculptors have dealt with it ever since.

I wasn't raised to be into promoting myself.

I have looked at so many photographs, I can not see them anymore.

The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

Often during writing, I am compelled by OCD to delete and rewrite a word or sentence over and over again.

We can only discover our true strength through struggle. Don’t give up. Find out what you’re made of.

Those half-learn'd witlings, num'rous in our isle As half-form'd insects on the banks of Nile

Finality is not the language of politics.

Real love amounts to withholding the truth, even when you're offered the perfect opportunity to hurt someone's feelings.

At the extreme north, the voyagers are obliged to dance and act plays for employment.

That's a beautiful purse. I carry a satchel.

Weakness is a guise. Wear it when they need to know you're human, but never when you feel it.

A lot of my friends aren't working, especially since fewer films are being made now and there's more competition.