Ephemeral work made outside, for and about a day, lies at the core of my art and its making must be kept private.

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.

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.

A lot of bands wanna do something new all the time and never repeat themselves, but I'm not so interested in that. If I feel like I can do it better the second time, I'll give it another shot.

I don't want to sit around and hope good things happen. I want to make them happen.

My brother Julio and I worked to improve the quality of wines from California and to put fine wine on American dinner tables at a price people could afford.

If you knew the immensity of what it means to be human, you would not talk about God or Heaven.

I've decided I am going to start loving my backside because I don't know anyone who does that. And for my daughter, I want to be able to say to her, 'I love this.'

Let's just say, the American school of suburban angst is not my cup of tea.

Never talk to a client about architecture. Talk to him about his children.

I come from the theater, where I got into acting because I love transforming. I love nothing more than to be unrecognizable.

What do you want?' is too imprecise to produce a meaningful and actionable answer.