Content arises out of certain considerations about form, material, context-and that when that subject matter is sufficiently far away.

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

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

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.

Withhold a smile only when the smile can hurt someone. Otherwise, let it bloom forth in a riot.

Work is part of school.

Any fool can do something cool and look cool, but it takes skill to make something uncool cool again.

A measured response trumps a triggered reaction every time. Breathe first.

We are the people our parents warned us about.

When I go to vote for anything, I always pencil in the proposition to return California and Texas to Mexico. I'm the one person that's voting for that one.

There's been a tremendous amount of work that's been done that you can't see in Columbia.

Believe in yourself, step one. Believe in the order, step two. Believe in the teachings, step three.

Never think about something wrong you did in the past, always look forward with your head up high; have no regrets.

Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.