I'm a terrible cook, but if I could cook, I would see that in art as well, it's how much creative energy you put into something.

Art is like a lover whom you run away from but who comes back and picks you up.

There should be something revelatory about art. It should be totally creative and open doors for new thoughts and experiences.

It's my memory, and what happened between that moment 10 or 15 years ago and now, there's a lot of gray area

Most people don't do something seminal. I've done it twice: with my tent and my bed. Picasso did it with Cubism.

When it comes to words I have a uniqueness that I find almost impossible in art – and it's my words that actually make my art quite unique.

What's really good about the word 'art' is that 'art' is a word like 'love,' or 'god,' or whatever. It transcends so many things.

What is truth? Truth doesn't really exist. Who is going to judge whether my experience of an incident is more valid than yours? No one can be trusted to be the judge of that.

The words went round and round and round in my mind and my body, until I knew they were no longer my words but something that had been carved into my heart. And now my soul was crying.

There is nothing difficult about my work, and people get to hear it from me.

I feel physically ill if I don't make work, I don't create. I don't feel very good. I don't feel right, I feel wrong.

Even if such beauty wasn't meant to be in a world so fallen as ours, that didn't take away from its beauty. It only made it more beautiful.

I fell in love with you like the stars fell in love with the sky, without you I am empty and bare.

Sooner or later we all lose our loved ones. We all have to suffer, every last one of us.

Today's developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to celebrate the worth of his enterprise.

It's not appealing to deal with countries that express hatred towards us.

Justice and truth are two such subtle points, that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.

I read.. because one life is not enough

The secret of getting successful work out of your trained men lies in one nutshell—in the clearness of the instructions they receive.

Men put me on a pedestal, then never come to visit.

Life isn't a support system for art. It's the other way around.