I didn't like men, but I liked women.

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 Magic to happen in our lives, we need to be open minded about magical things happening

The striking thing is that the transatlantic divergence in working patterns has coincided almost exactly with a comparable convergence in religiosity. Europeans not only work less

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

Faith is the courageous confidence that trusts in the Source of all gifts.

In cloths cheap handsomeness, doth bear the bell.

The most startling aspect of the nutrition situation in India is that it is not much of an issue in public debates and electoral politics.

I always feel uncomfortable at parties, and I'm often nervous when talking to strangers. I don't think this makes me feel special. Maybe everybody feels this way.

Sir, you must not neglect doing a thing immediately good from fear of remote evil; - from fear of its being abused.

Nobody has tried to swallow us since I've been here. I think they are afraid how we would taste.

There are also fundamental issues related to what the current leader, President [Barack] Obama, said. I am referring to his idea about American exceptionalism. I am skeptical about this idea.