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

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’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.

I could read the great books but the great books don't interest me.

I don't understand how everything changes, how the layers of your life get buried. Impossible. At some point, at some time, we must all explode.

Chastity without charity is a lamp without oil.

Humanity, like armies in the field, advances at the speed of the slowest.

I predict one of these two teams will win the Super Bowl.

Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within.

No, no, I'm sure, My restless spirit never could endure To brood so long upon one luxury, Unless it did, though fearfully, espy A hope beyond the shadow of a dream.

There have been innumerable films about film-making, but Otto e Mezzo was a film about the processes of thinking about making a film -- certainly the most enjoyable part of any cinema creation.

Wherever the tree of beneficence takes root, it sends forth branches beyond the sky!

Can you be serious for two words?" "Not without effort.