Confrontation is something that I accept as part of the project though not its purpose.

We often forget that WE ARE NATURE. Nature is not something separate from us. So when we say that we have lost our connection to nature, we’ve lost our connection to ourselves.

My sculpture can last for days or a few seconds - what is important to me is the experience of making. I leave all my work outside and often return to watch it decay.

There is life in a stone. Any stone that sits in a field or lies on a beach takes on the memory of that place. You can feel that stones have witnessed so many things.

Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood.

Time gives growth, it gives continuity and it gives change. And in the case of some sculptures, time gives a patina to them.

Nature, for me is raw and dangerous and difficult and beautiful and unnerving.

I think that any sculpture is a response to its environment. It can be brought to life or put to sleep by the environment.

You must have something new in a landscape as well as something old, something that's dying and something that's being born.

When I make a work, I often take it to the very edge of its collapse, and that's a very beautiful balance.

People also leave presence in a place even when they are no longer there.

People who live according to the world’s standard are confused, and therefore get into all kinds of trouble that leads to destruction.

Everyone dies. I just choose the time and place for some of them!

Celebrity is death - celebrity - that's the worst thing that can happen to an actor.

In France, I am so free. I have more freedom than most American directors could dare to even imagine.

I'm hardly digging trenches for a living. I'm getting to tap into my boyhood fantasies of being a larger-than-life character.

Next time you're about to judge someone, attempt to understand them instead.

The frost which kills the harvest of a year saves the harvest of a century, by destroying the weevil or the locust.

I've always wanted to do a Shakespearean soliloquy, or a fake Shakespearean soliloquy, and now I'm doing that more often in shows. Things I've always wanted to do starting to happen.

If you can't see the gift in having a child with autism, you're focusing too much on the autism and not enough on the child.

The reward of esteem, respect and gratitude [is] due to those who devote their time and efforts to render the youths of every successive age fit governors for the next.