I feel that works of art are an opportunity for people to construct meaning, so I don't usually tell what they mean. It conveys to people that they have to participate.

As one gets older one sees many more paths that could be taken. Artists sense within their own work that kind of swelling of possibilities, which may seem a freedom or a confusion.

Bend color names which should be made of neon or copper tubing. Place an object on a surface - trace the object - then bend the object - leaving some part of it attached.

To be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist.

Take an object. Do something to it. Do something else to it.

One night I dreamed that I painted a large American flag, and the next morning I got up and I went out and bought the materials to begin it.

When something is new to us, we treat it as an experience. We feel that our senses are awake and clear. We are alive.

I assumed that everything would lead to complete failure, but I decided that didn't matter – that would be my life.

One works without thinking how to work.

It's simple, you just take something and do something to it, and then do something else to it. Keep doing this, and pretty soon you've got something.

Art is either a complaint or appeasement.

Empathy needs no genius.

Happiness doesn't come from commercial success but from the quality of work that you give back to your immediate community.

In a few wretched buildings, we created a whole new industry with international significance.

It is a tremendous waste of energy to try to block anyone else. That same energy could be applied to furthering your own success.

They have done this through sexual repression, economic repression, political repression, social repression, ideological repression and spiritual repression.

Solve the problem of life? Live, and you solve it.

My sparrow, she flickers and wakes and sings and sings.

While the things I do kill me, they just tell me to relax

We shall never be abandoned by Heaven while we act worthy of its aid and protection

It matters in a fatherly way.