Working is very important to me. Probably because as a child I was taught that work was good. I don’t believe it intellectually but I identify with that idea. So it’s probably just like a habit.

As one gets older one sees many more paths that could be taken. Artists sense within their own work that kind of swelling of possibilities, which may seem a freedom or a confusion.

Bend color names which should be made of neon or copper tubing. Place an object on a surface - trace the object - then bend the object - leaving some part of it attached.

To be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist.

Take an object. Do something to it. Do something else to it.

One night I dreamed that I painted a large American flag, and the next morning I got up and I went out and bought the materials to begin it.

When something is new to us, we treat it as an experience. We feel that our senses are awake and clear. We are alive.

I assumed that everything would lead to complete failure, but I decided that didn't matter – that would be my life.

One works without thinking how to work.

It's simple, you just take something and do something to it, and then do something else to it. Keep doing this, and pretty soon you've got something.

Art is either a complaint or appeasement.

Preparing for your journey in the most thorough way possible will not diminish your experiences abroad. It will enhance them.

Whatever keeps me from my Bible is my enemy, however harmless it may appear to be.

Choose your parents wisely.

I don't think anybody who is already with Donald Trump is going to be peeled off by his not knowing about NATO or why Japan does not have nuclear weapons, or things of that sort.

I had an instinct before and maybe now I don't have that instinct as much as knowing what to do, what shots to hit, where to place the ball, things like that.

Passion, like discriminating taste, grows on its use. You more likely act yourself into feeling than feel yourself into action.

At every stage of my career, I sought out the most influential people around me and asked for their help and guidance.

Don't you miss it?" I say. "Being free." He laughs.

Personal sins should not require press releases and problems within a family shouldn't have to mean public confessions.

Forestry is the work of nation builders.