I believe that beauty is a basic service.

It's not really about the material. It's about our capacity to shape things.

I'm not a preacher, but I preach. I'm not a Buddhist, but I chant. I'm not race theorist, but I have questions and ponderances around the complexities of race and class and culture wherever I am.

Sometimes the creating that we do is creating a platform that allows other creative people to pitch in.

I think I'm passionately allowing myself to be influenced by the things that are around me.

The reason artists want to have works in museums is that we want our works to be seen by as many people as possible and we want our ideas to be understood in more complicated ways.

I have the willingness to think fully about where opportunities are and where they live.

Modernism was influenced by what they call a primativist ethic.

What I think museums do very well is that they say to a public, "We have some stuff that's worth looking at."

The fact that the work is affirmed by the Museum of Contemporary Art I think sends continued signals that this is worth paying attention to, looking at, and understanding.

It's really exciting to know that people want to use the house as a house and want to live there although it hasn't been a used, occupied space in 50 or 60 years.

Enemies aren't always garnered through action... Sometimes they appear for no other reason than to shame the goodwill of loving & kind people.

As athletes, we're used to reacting quickly. Here, it's 'come, stop, come, stop.' There's a lot of downtime. That's the toughest part of the day.

I come to the point of using steel, and simply cannot. It's like the marriage proposal of a perfectly eligible man who just isn't loveable. It is wood I love.

We should call editorials what they are: columns written by committees.

When mankind goes back to treating people the way you want to be treated, things will settle, I don't see that happening. I treat people the way I want to be treated, which makes me odd.

Everyone wants to be part of the 99%, even the cops are like, "No, no, man. I'm part of the 99% too." No one wants to be part of the 1%.

I used to think drinking was the only way to be happy. Now I know there is no way to be happy.

Moscow was, as some said, the most beautiful mistress a man could ever want, but never cross her: like any good woman, she might just cut off your balls for the hell of it.

Faust was this mythical figure who sold his soul to the devil for unlimited power. The Japanese have made that Faustian bargain because they don't have coal, oil or hydro power.

Cameroon is a football country - children are born playing football.