I think different people have different problems and different relations to the exhibition of their work.

I consider space to be a material. The articulation of space has come to take precedence over other concerns. I attempt to use sculptural form to make space distinct.

What interests me is the opportunity for all of us to become something different from what we are, by constructing spaces that contribute something to the experience of who we are.

On the other hand, if there's an underlying core of poetry that I go to, I go to the sea. I've lived on the sea all my life. I live on the sea in Cape Breton.

Everything we choose in life for its lightness soon reveals its unbearable weight.

The thing about coming back to the Bay Area, it's like coming home for me.

Your eye is a muscle, you have to keep it in shape and the more you draw, the more you see.

Play is a necessary ingredient in art because there is a kind of wonder that goes on when you play. You're directing your activity toward a conclusion that isn't prescribed by a particular method.

To see is to think, and to think is to see.

Basically, what you really want to do is try to engage the viewer's body relation to his thinking and walking and looking, without being overly heavy-handed about it.

I think you always have to find where the boundary is in relation to the context in order to be able to kind of articulate how you want the space to interact with the viewer.

Through pride the devil became the devil. Pride leads to every vice, it's the complete anti-God state of mind.

Our loyalties are to the species and the planet. We speak for Earth.

Never lend your car keys to someone you gave birth to.

I think people have had the understanding for many years that whatever happens with the separation of parents, that the kids automatically go to the mother. The fathers don't know their rights.

Night is real. Night is not an absence of light, but in fact, it is daytime that is a brief respite from the looming darkness.

Associate with people of vision. Be around those who inspire you and motivate you to reach your dreams.

In the '70s and '80s there was an attempt in K-12 to teach science through art or art through science. The challenge today is how do you build the ethos of art and design into the academy of science.

I used to be able to slim down just by exercising more, but that's changed.

If peace . . . only had the music and pageantry of war, there'd be no wars.

One thing I hate in movies is when the camera starts circling around the characters. I find that totally fake.