The work is flowing from an inner knowing of how things really are.

Although idea and form are ultimately paramount in my work, so too are chance, accident, and rawness.

I think of moving as a kind of saving grace.

At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture.

There is the potential for much more spontaneity with prints than there is with the sculpture, which tends to be very slow, accretive kind of process-labor intensive.

When I went to Africa I think that was when I really found a way to deal with what I had recently discovered; in two-dimensional terms, at least.

I was never interested in making cool, distilled, pure objects.

I realized it wasn't necessary to work in the traditional methods of carving and casting.

The site I landed on feels much more isolated than it really is; it's almost magical. Within its limited radius, there was a whole range of the local ecology.

The fire was followed by a period of grieving and then by an incredible lightness, freedom, and mobility.

A man.A really manly man with a lot of mannishness in his manliness.

How much change can a person absorb before everything loses meaning Living for its own sake isn't life. People need meaning as much as they need air.

A warning to you both - choose to follow me or oppose me and I will kill you.-Connor Kenway

For it is only habit and memory that dulls the physical passion. Without memory, each night is the first night, each morning is the first morning, each kiss and touch are the first.

We can still see God in other people and do our best to help them find their own grace. So that’s what I strive to do and pray to do every day.

It is therefore wish'd that all commerce were as free between all the nations of the world as it is between the several counties of England.

I looked at God and He looked at me, and we were one forever.

Leaders honor their core values, but they are flexible in how they execute them.

Build shelter against a rainy day.

Each language has its own temperament; some languages make a poem more dramatic or sad, and others make it more playful.