The first snowball I froze was put in my mother's deep freeze when I was in my early 20s.

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.

Instead of imposing new obligations, (Christians) should appear as people who wish to share their joy, who point to a horizon of beauty and who invite others to a delicious banquet.

There's no mystery to it. Nothing more complicated than learning lines and putting on a costume.

I'd like to cut an attitude into clothes.

I dream, therefore I exist.

We may not be able to accomplish everything we can dream, but we will not accomplish anything without our dreams

A footman may swear; but he cannot swear like a lord. He can swear as often: but can he swear with equal delicacy, propriety, and judgment?

Always leave a sinking ship. There's no virtue in hanging on to losers. And stocks don't have feelings.

Im told Im like my father, and he was the most wonderful man. But I think he was gentler than me.

[Airmail was] an impractical sort of fad, and had no place in the serious job of postal transportation.

I’m just enjoying just having a little me time, you know? But it’s not that I’m not taking applications.