I feel the symbolic world is the nub of a problem for an artist

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.

All ideas grow out of other ideas

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.

Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic. World's had to be in travail, that the meanest flower might blow...

You know how they say the path to hell is paved with good intentions? Well, maybe the path to heaven is paved with bad ones.

There’s merit in being different, inspiration in being individual, courage in being unique, and freedom in being yourself.

I want to become more famous, even more famous.

To understand music, you must listen to it. But so long as you are thinking, “I am listening to this music,” you are not listening.

If you do not have goals of your own you are doomed forever to work to achieve the goals of someone else.

Most people's goals are too low and too slow.

I kind of go for the MGM version of every musical style.

Well, Eminem, you know, I know him longer. Ive been signed to his label since 2001 and hes a good friend.

The problem of destroying enemy rockets in flight has been successfully solved in our country.