I didn't study the piano - the piano studied me.

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.

The Delta agent saw my itinerary and said, 'You’re flying to Jakarta via Atlanta, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur? You must have really pissed off your travel agent.

Sometimes man seeks for wealth for eighty years, but cannot find, and then realises that life itself is the wealth itself!

We had an awesome locker room of girls, and I'm honored to have shared a locker room with all those girls.

Don't eat processed food, refined food but rather organic food from the earth - nothing with genetically - modified ingredients.

I try not to get impressed. I just try to look at what I see.

This was my modest dream come true: unambitious flight. The kind that never even got high enough for a view.

They can get married. They can marry a man if they're a woman. Or they can marry a woman if they're a man.

I think I understand passion. Love is something else.

The learning is the heavy lifting. You need to get the words into your brain.