Public art existed all along, but ecological art just naturally grew out of my thinking and writings in that area for years. I didn't get involved in it; I started what then became a movement.

People always understand everything in retrospect.

Anything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated. So the understructure should be underrated, but strong enough to hold the earth.

People are always fighting reality until it's pushed down their throats.

Most wonderful things are unconscious.

People have too many problems during the day; they don't want to think.

When I'm gone, you'll be sitting in a cafe and say, "Do you remember Agnes?"

People don't hurt what they love.

I went through about six or seven painting methods just to see what I didn't want to do. And then I got off the wall, and went into the environment.

Thinking has an understructure and underpinnings.

I wish I didn't have daily problems to deal with, so that I could just concentrate on learning more, every single day.

Any ideal system is its own worst enemy, and as soon as you start to implement these visions of grandeur, they just fall apart and turn into a complete tyranny.

You get most things in life not by taking, but by giving.

Adverbs is a book about love, and I thought that was pretty cheerful, but people who are reading it now are telling me that it's actually quite dark.

We have ideas of God and nirvana or truth or enlightenment. These ideas will go away in nirvana because the suffusion is so complete and intense that nothing can be remembered.

We have to do it, so there's no point in bitching.

Frequent and violent temptations were a proof that the citadel of the soul had not fallen and that the devil raged to make it fall.

Every man or woman is a potential poet or artist. Everyone has the capacity to bring to their work the dignity, purposefulness, and presence of the artist.

Grief is not graceful.

Just build your brand from day one, man. Your brand is your name, basically. A lot of people don't know that they need to build their brand, your brand is what keeps you moving.

Never ask for someone's thoughts on autism unless you are prepared to hear a story that doesn't resemble your own.