If you get a bad review, you take that in your stride.

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.

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.

We live in a fractured world. I've always seen it as my role as an artist to attempt to make wholeness.

There is greatness in doing something you hate for the sake of someone you love.

He knew himself well enough that once she was gone he wouldn’t last regardless. His heart would simply stop beating without her.

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

We feel and know that we are eternal.

Had I children, my utmost endeavors would be to make them musicians.

I suppose my biggest concern would be if the planet is going to be in good enough shape for the next generation to have the privileges that we've had.

[Obama's reelection] would subject the country to what might be a fatal last dose of statism.

The over curious are not over wise.

I have no wisdom and nothing useful to tell you - I only mentioned this because it came into my head.

Thus the expert in battle moves the enemy, and is not moved by him.