I used to empty the studio out and throw stuff away. I now don't. There will be a whole series of dead ends that a year or two down the line I'll come back to

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.

A poem should not meanBut be.

Divorce fear. Court courage. Pursue hope. Marry love.

She's a Texan, born and raised. Football is in our blood.

I got married because it was the right time and the right thing to do.

Ripe in wisdom was he, but patient, and simple, and childlike.

You know, never say never.

Announcing a withdrawal date, that was wrong. The Taliban may not have watches, but they do have calendars.

There is nothing more productive of problems than a really good solution.

Any crusade requires optimism and the ambition to aim high

I feel more comfortable doing films with groups of guys. It's a lot easier for me. There's a difference with women: you can't take them to dinner every night and go crazy