A work will only have deep resonance if the kind of darkness I can generate is something that is resident in me already

One cannot set out to make a work that's spiritual. What is a contemporary iconography for the spiritual? Is it some fuzzy space?

Red, of course, is the colour of the interior of our bodies. In a way it's inside out, red.

The work itself has a complete circle of meaning and counterpoint. And without your involvement as a viewer, there is no story.

All ideas grow out of other ideas

Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.

If you get a bad review, you take that in your stride.

I think I understand something about space. I think the job of a sculptor is spatial as much as it is to do with form.

One doesn't make art for other people, even though I am very concerned with the viewer

That freedom that Picasso afforded himself, to be an artist in a huge number of ways, seems to be a huge psychological liberation.

We live in a fractured world. I've always seen it as my role as an artist to attempt to make wholeness.

When you mature in your relationship with God you realize how suffering and patience are like eating your spiritual vegetables.

my gardenin the sun and in the rainand in the day and in the nightpain is a flowerpain is flowersblooming all the time.

There was no opiate like a French pillow.

Jealousy is like a raging toothache. One cannot do anything when one is jealous, not even sit down. Once can only come and go. Back and forth.

It is nonsense to say that Germans are unable to change.

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, and that's the price of love.

You're pretending this isn't your life. You think it's going to happen some other time. When you're dead you'll realise you were alive now.

Reason can tell how love affects us, but cannot tell what love is.

Art is like a shipwreck; it's every man for himself.

We have to think before we act.