I didn't like men because they were so physically competitive. Men are always making a pecking order. "I can beat you up and you can beat him up ..."

Art is the exclusion of the unnecessary.

A man climbs a mountain because it is there. An artist makes a work of art because it is not there.

My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.

Art is an intersection of many human needs.

What do little kids do? They crawl on the floor and they build with blocks. I just continued to do that for the rest of my life.

Art is what we do. Culture is what is done to us. A photograph of an art object is not the art object. An essay about an artist's work is not the artist's work.

A place is an area within an environment that has been altered in such a way to make the general environment more conspicuous.

Once you turn something into something, its universal usage is over.

Why carve? It's a better sculpture that way. I'll never improve the block. So I just started using uncarved blocks.

If you're any good as an artist, you have to be doing something nobody else has interest in. Nobody would be interested in my work except a few crazy people.

For to speak the truth, there are but few that care thus to spend their time, but choose rather to be speaking of things to no profit.

...Sigerius realized that every academic looked like every other academic." - Bonita Avenue, p.49

Mr. Rip Wan winkle, be a star that twinkle.

Books ... rarely if ever talk about what children can make of themselves about the powers that from the day or moment of birth are present in every child.

I was such a screwup when I got to the big leagues. I was a total idiot.

If I stop pushing you, if I stop demanding of you, if I stop getting on you, then I probably don't think you have much to offer.

Very rarely do actors, even with features, get to live with a part for that long and really dig into it.

When you make a commitment to yourself, do so with the clear understanding that you're pledging your integrity.

The sincere artist is usually his own best critic, but continuous and prolonged work on one painting will sometimes dull his judgment... The critic is in demand, but he must be competent.

My way of life Is fall'n into the sear and yellow leaf.