Landscape to me is a planar thing, just a view. Environment is everything down to the ecosystem. Big difference.

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.

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

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.

When a person has a gun, sometimes their mind clicks that this thing ... will win arguments and straighten people out.

It is very difficult to reconcile the American ideal of a sovereign people capable of owning and managing their own government with an inability to own and manage their own business.

There is no fundamental social change by being simply of individual and interpersonal actions. You have to have organizations and institutions that make a fundamental difference.

I'm an artist, a designer, a craftsman, interior designer, half-architect. There's no one name that fits me very well.

I started at the age of 8 and have been lucky to be still working.

Adaptation of books is never a success. When the author wants to make it, it's even worse.

If the mind is not contrived, it is spontaneously blissful, just as water, when not agitated, is by nature transparent and clear.

If you follow the enemy's shifts and changes, you can always find a way to win.

There's not some finite amount of pain inside us. Our bodies and minds just keep manufacturing more of it.

Outside of love, no two things are more valued in another person than trust and loyalty.