The essence of drawing is the line exploring space.

We often forget that WE ARE NATURE. Nature is not something separate from us. So when we say that we have lost our connection to nature, we’ve lost our connection to ourselves.

My sculpture can last for days or a few seconds - what is important to me is the experience of making. I leave all my work outside and often return to watch it decay.

There is life in a stone. Any stone that sits in a field or lies on a beach takes on the memory of that place. You can feel that stones have witnessed so many things.

Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood.

Time gives growth, it gives continuity and it gives change. And in the case of some sculptures, time gives a patina to them.

Nature, for me is raw and dangerous and difficult and beautiful and unnerving.

I think that any sculpture is a response to its environment. It can be brought to life or put to sleep by the environment.

You must have something new in a landscape as well as something old, something that's dying and something that's being born.

When I make a work, I often take it to the very edge of its collapse, and that's a very beautiful balance.

People also leave presence in a place even when they are no longer there.

Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.

I’m going to punch words in your ear holes.

I do force myself to sleep with myself to get the job. But that's always a disappointment.

We are not in prison so we are free and happy? No. We're in a different kind of prison in this life. We have to confront it, and we have to liberate Istanbul and ourselves, as well.

The writing of headline is one of the great journalistic arts. They either conceal or reveal am interest

The zeal which begins with hypocrisy must conclude in treachery at first it deceives, at last it betrays

It takes much more energy to ignore things than it takes to deal with them and not be afflicted by them anymore.

George W. Bush did not go on television to trash [Donald] Trump.

An important consequence of freeing oneself from the fear of death is a radical opening to spirituality of a universal and non-denominational type.

Wars are begun by frightened men.