I consider space to be a material. The articulation of space has come to take precedence over other concerns. I attempt to use sculptural form to make space distinct.

What interests me is the opportunity for all of us to become something different from what we are, by constructing spaces that contribute something to the experience of who we are.

On the other hand, if there's an underlying core of poetry that I go to, I go to the sea. I've lived on the sea all my life. I live on the sea in Cape Breton.

Everything we choose in life for its lightness soon reveals its unbearable weight.

The thing about coming back to the Bay Area, it's like coming home for me.

Your eye is a muscle, you have to keep it in shape and the more you draw, the more you see.

Play is a necessary ingredient in art because there is a kind of wonder that goes on when you play. You're directing your activity toward a conclusion that isn't prescribed by a particular method.

To see is to think, and to think is to see.

Basically, what you really want to do is try to engage the viewer's body relation to his thinking and walking and looking, without being overly heavy-handed about it.

I think you always have to find where the boundary is in relation to the context in order to be able to kind of articulate how you want the space to interact with the viewer.

Art is not democratic. It is not for the people.

The clown was an evil one. They’re either good or bad, and this one was definitely the latter.

The highest level than can be reached by a mediocre but experienced mind is a talent for uncovering the weaknesses of those greater than itself.

Most of us will have more than one job in our working lives, which means we will have more than one opportunity to seek meaningful work at different stages of our own deepening humanity.

I just wanted to inspire people and I hope I did.

When it gets into these spikes, with shortages and uproar and so forth, people go bananas, but that's capitalism.

I think I am a lot more relaxed about what I have or haven't done.

You will find when you open your heart and can fill it with loving, beautiful thoughts, that you will want to love all those souls you come into contact with, no matter who they are.

I remember in Shallow Grave I remember a few times when we'd only have to do one take. But when you did have to do more than one, you'd build on the one you'd done.

Don't look for big things, just do small things with great love...the smaller the thing, the greater must be our love.