I began to stack my sculptures into an environment. It was natural. It was a flowing of energy.

True strength is delicate.

I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside, it's a painful, difficult search within.

When you put things together, things that other people have thrown out, you’re really bringing them to life – a spiritual life that surpasses the life for which they were originally created.

No matter how individual we humans are, we are a composite of everything we are aware of. We are a mirror of our times.

I always wanted to show the world that art is everywhere, except it has to pass through a creative mind.

Most of us have to be transplanted before we blossom.

You take a painting, you have a white, virginal piece of canvas that is the world of purity, and then you put your imagery on it, and you try to bring it back to the original purity.

It gave me great pleasure to think that I could take wood, make it good, and make people like Rockefeller buy it with paper money.

I make collages. I join the shattered world creating a new harmony.

I think all great innovations are built on rejections.

Product is an output of efforts, skills and time

The greatest war story ever told commemorates a war that established no boundaries, won no territory, and furthered no cause.

Do not confuse humility with humiliation.

Don’t do your best, do my best.

It's easy to be a one-hit wonder. It's hard to stay relevant for more than a few years.

I might be a teacher or something like that. I really like young people. I always think about the teachers I had that did a good job. I would maybe have the same aspirations.

If I am ever put to death on the hook, expect a very human performance.

We are not in Afghanistan for the sake of the education policy in a broken 13th-century country. We are there so the people of Britain and our global interests are not threatened.

What turned me on to comedy was - well, first of all, I like being able to laugh, I like people who can make me laugh.

This silence, this moment, every moment, If it's genuinely inside you, brings what you need.