Why carve? It's a better sculpture that way. I'll never improve the block. So I just started using uncarved blocks.

Art is the exclusion of the unnecessary.

A man climbs a mountain because it is there. An artist makes a work of art because it is not there.

My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.

Art is an intersection of many human needs.

What do little kids do? They crawl on the floor and they build with blocks. I just continued to do that for the rest of my life.

Art is what we do. Culture is what is done to us. A photograph of an art object is not the art object. An essay about an artist's work is not the artist's work.

A place is an area within an environment that has been altered in such a way to make the general environment more conspicuous.

Once you turn something into something, its universal usage is over.

If you're any good as an artist, you have to be doing something nobody else has interest in. Nobody would be interested in my work except a few crazy people.

The wood was better before I cut it, than after. I did not improve it in any way.

Nature has certain mechanism to record all memories of every life being.

But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.

It is so much hard work writing your first novel. You're not even sure that it is possible to do.

I think Paul Sarbanes and his wife Christine socialized with them [George and Heather Mitchell] more than I did, but we all hung out, or we saw each other in groups.

Worldly wisdom dictates to her disciples the propriety of dressing somewhat beyond their means, but of living somewhat within them.

I'd love to be a mole on the wall in the Liverpool dressing room at half-time.

You need someone that behaves like James Bond more than you need someone that is an expert in some particular domain.

Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I've worked in the music business.

In the long arc of time, you are only relevant if customers love you.

A belief may be larger than a fact. A faith that is overdefined is the very faith most likely to prove inadequate to the great moments of life.