Americans understand better than the Europeans and the English that any publicity is good.

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.

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

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.

I'm looking at the ruins of my own existence and knowing, with a sickening certainty, that my old home and my old life have been truly destroyed.

The Bible teaches that man’s chief problem is spiritual.

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

I don't need to control anything. Even with romantic partnerships, I don't need to control anyone.

My music is like the perfect haircut-a Friday-night cut! It makes you feel like wanting to put on some nice clothes to go out and have a good time.

Always, always pursue happiness.

If you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure, then believe.

Peter Pan is perhaps the most important thing, to me, that I have ever done in theater.

As long as my face is on page one, I don't care what they say about me on page seventeen.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.